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30 March, 00:00

March 30 1867. The USA purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million (2 cents an acre). 1922. The Berezil (March) studio theater was founded by Les Kurbas in Kyiv (now Kharkiv Shevchenko Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater). March 31 1951. The Lviv branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR was established. 1970. The USSR's largest tube-rolling factory shop was commissioned in Nikopol at the Pivdennotrubny (Southern Pipe) Steel Mill. April 1 1917. A Ukrainian National Council was formed in Petrograd on the basis of local Ukrainian sociopolitical organizations.1961. The Dnipropetrovsk electric-locomotive factory put out its first product, the D-100 commercial electric locomotive. April 2 1596. The village of Hostry Kamin, Kyiv oblast, saw a battle between the insurgent forces of Severyn Nalyvaiko and the troops of Polish Hetman Zolkiewski. 1991. The Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation between the Ukrainian SSR and the Republic of Kyrgyzstan was signed in Bishkek. April 3 1919. The Ukrainian SSR Council of People's Commissars passed a decree to declare Baron Pfalz-Fein's former estates Askania-Nova and Yelizavetfeld as a people's preserve park. 1990. The Ukrainian national flag was hoisted over the Lviv town hall. April 4 1113. Prince Volodymyr Monomakh routed the Polovtsy (Cumans) on the Solonytsia River. 1996. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law On the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea. April 5 1782. Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II abolished serfdom (including in Galicia).

 

 

 

 

 

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