May 18: International Museum Day.
May 18, 1944: Deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homeland
begins. This is currently observed as Crimean Deportation Victims Day.
May 19, 1861: Ukraine's first Sunday school opens in Sumy.
May 19, 1922: Lenin Young Pioneers Organization is founded in
the USSR.
May 20, 1942: The Patriotic War Order, first and second class,
is instituted in the Soviet Union.
May 20, 1961: The Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers institutes
the annual Taras Shevchenko Prize for outstanding merits in literature
and the arts.
May 21, 1712: Peter I orders the Russian capital transferred
from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
May 21, 1921: The Ukrainian SSR Council of People's Commissars
adopts a resolution to liquidate illiteracy.
May 22, 1856: Tretiakov Art Gallery is founded in Moscow.
May 22, 1939: Italy and Germany sign the Pact of Steel on mutual
military assistance strengthening the Berlin-Rome Axis military bloc.
May 23, 1988: A monument to Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky is unveiled
in Kyiv.
May 23, 1919: A motion picture studio opens in Odesa.
May 24, 1649: Hetman Khmelnytsky's delegation arrives in Moscow
to negotiate concerted action against the Polish Commonwealth.
May 24, 1940: the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America is
established in Washington.






