July 21, 1941: Soviet troops retreat from Vinnytsia. July 21, 1956: the Ukrainian State Circus opens in Kyiv. July 22, 1959: the AN-10 airplane makes its first Moscow-Simferopol passenger flight. July 22, 1970: the USSR Council of Ministers resolves to open the Ternopil Financial-Economic Institute. July 23, AD-971: Kyivan Prince Sviatoslav and Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimisces sign a peace treaty. July 23, 1943: Soviet troops take Kharkiv from the Germans. July 24, 1917: the First All-Ukraine Workers' Congress opens in Kyiv. July 24, 1991: Verkhovna Rada adopts the Act of Independence. July 25, 1946: the bikini is first demonstrated at a fashion show in Paris. July 25, 1983: 4,451 km. Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod transcontinental gas pipeline completed. July 26, 1648: Ukrainian rebels led by Maksym Kryvonis defeat Wisniowiecki’s Polish forces at Starokostiantyniv. July 26, 1996: ICBM disposal station opens at Dnipropetrovsk. July 27: 1649: Bohdan Khmelnytsky's troops defeat the Poles at Zbarazh. July 27, 1834: St. Volodymyr University is founded in Kyiv.






