February 16, 1929: The first Week of Ukrainian Literature ends
in Moscow. February 16, 1994: Ukraine and Kazakhstan sign a communique
in Almaty expanding contacts between their military establishments. February
17, 1664: Polish aristocrats execute Cossack Colonel Ivan Bohun, hero
of the Ukrainian Cossack Revolution. February 17, 1944: the Korsun-Shevchenkivsky
offensive, one of the largest operations during World War II, ends. February
18, 1969: Soviet dissident poet Joseph Brodsky stands trial in Leningrad,
later to immigrate to the US (1972) and be award the Nobel Prize for literature.
February 18, 1979: Simferopol University opens. February 19,
1954: The Crimean oblast is transferred from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian
SSR in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the "reunification" of
Ukraine and Russia. February 19, 1992: the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
affirms the tryzub (trident) as the Small Emblem of Ukraine, to
be considered as a key element of the Large National Emblem. February
20, 1919: the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR passes
a decree on civil marriage and civil registry. February 21, 1899:
the world's first arctic icebreaker, the Yermak, designed by Admiral Makarov,
is launched at the shipyard of Newcastle upon Tyne. February 21, 1919:
the first issue of the newspaper Kommunar (Communard) is published
in Kyiv (later to become Vechirny Kyiv).






