July 7: St. John the Baptist's Day. July 7, 1940: Ivan Franko Literary Museum opens in Lviv. July 7, 1941: Nazis besiege Kyiv. Soviet forces and citizens offer heroic resistance. July 8, 1659: Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky's Cossack troops defeat the Russian army at Konotop. July 8, 1709: the Battle of Poltava begins. July 9, 1783: the Russian War Ministry orders the reorganization of Left-Bank Cossack regiments as regular Russian army units of the same caliber. July 9, 1961: Taras Shevchenko statue is unveiled in Winnipeg. July 10, 1968: Maxim Rylsky Literary Museum opens in Kyiv. July 10, 1994: Leonid Kuchma is elected President of Ukraine. July 11, 1819: military settlers of Chuhuiv revolt against serfdom. July 11, 1925: the Ukrainian National Democratic Association (Ukr. abbr. UNDO) is set up in Lviv. July 12: Fisherman Day. July 12, 1581: Ivan Feodorov prints The Gospels of Ostrog. July 12, 1941: Great Britain and the USSR sign a joint military action agreement (WW II). July 13, 1920: the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukr. SSR resolves to establish the Ukrainian Red Cross. July 13, 1935: Soviet Communist Party Politburo resolves to dissolve the Ukrainian branch of the Old Bolsheviks' Society.






