April 6, 1909: US Arctic explorer Robert Peary leads
the first party reaching the North Pole. April 6, 1992:
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resolves to prepare a multivolume documentary
edition on the victims of Communist purges in Ukraine. April 7, 1906:
the illegal Bolshevik newspaper Soldat (Soldier) begins publication
in Sevastopol. April 7, 1989: a memorial sign is unveiled
in Kyiv in commemoration of a feat of arms by Soviet and Polish antiaircraft
gunners during World War II. April 8, 1783: Russian
Empress Catherine II signs a manifesto joining the Crimean peninsula to
the empire. April 8, 1959: the first KrAZ-222 heavy-duty
dump truck comes off the assembly line at the Kremenchuk auto factory.
April 8, 1990: The US-Ukrainian Renaissance Foundation
is founded in Kyiv. April 9, 1921: Anton Chekhov House-Museum
is founded in Yalta. April 9, 1974: the first Soviet
182,000 ton supertanker Krym is launched in Kerch (Crimea). April
10, 1864: the first Ukrainian professional drama theater
starts functioning under the auspices of the Ruska Besida (Ruthenian Conversation)
Society. April 10, 1944: Soviet troops take Odesa from
the Axis. April 11: International Nazi Camp Inmates'
Liberation Day. April 11, 1857: Tsar Alexander II signs
a decree instituting the Great State Emblem of the Russian Empire. April
11, 1919: Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive
Committee decrees the construction of forced labor camps. April 12:
International Aviation and Astronautics Day. April 12, 1785:
The Habsburg Empire institutes a land cadaster in Galicia.






