This week in history 

January 26, 1589: Patriarchate is instituted in Russia. January 26, 1923: the Hart (Tempering) Union of Proletarian Writers of Ukraine is founded in Kharkiv. January 27, 1837: Aleksandr Pushkin is mortally wounded in a pistol duel on the river Chornaya near St. Petersburg. January 27, 1860: Taras Shevchenko's first complete Kobzar appears. January 28, 1929: the First Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists opens in Vienna to found the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). January 28, 1992: the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resolves to institute the yellow-blue national flag. January 29: Firefighters' Day January 29, 1918: a volunteer student detachment of about 300 from Kyiv engages Bolshevik forces at Kruty (Chernihiv oblast) and are killed. January 30, 1901: Rt. Rev. Andrey Sheptytsky is ordained Greek Catholic Metropolitan of Halychyna in Lviv. January 30, 1992: Ukraine becomes a member of the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe. January 31, 1918: the Ukrainian National Republic enacts its Land Code. January 31, 1920: the Ukrainski Shchodenni Visti (Ukrainian Daily News) beings publication in New York City. February 1, 1945: Sergo Ordzhonikidze Tractor Plant in Kharkiv begins serial output of tractors. February 1, 1993: Rukh, the Popular Movement of Ukraine, is officially registered with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.