This week in history

March 16. 1917. Russian imperial rule was ended in Ukraine.

1978. Kyiv’s Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Studio was awarded the Order of Lenin.

March 17. 1917. The Ukrainian Central Rada was organized in Kyiv.

1991. The USSR held a referendum on the preservation of the USSR as a federation of equal republics.

March 18. 1913. A military organization, Ukrayinski sichovi striltsi (Ukrainian Sich Sharpshooters) was formed in Lviv.

1991. A gala soiree dedicated to the centennial of poet Pavlo Tychyna’s birth was held in Moscow.

March 19. 1906. Leaders of the 1905 Black Sea Fleet mutiny were executed by firing squad by verdict of a Tsarist court.

March 20. 1895. The first issue of the journal Hromadsky holos (Community Voice) edited by Ivan Franko was published.

1944. Soviet troops took Vinnytsia from the German Nazis.

March 21. International Week of Solidarity with Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial Discrimination begins.

1927. The first issue of the Ukrainian-language Literaturna hazeta was published in Kiev