This week in history

July 29 1880: The Aivazovsky Art Gallery opens in Feodosiya (Crimea).

1994: Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine suspends the privatization process.

July 30 1920: Ukrainian Military Organization led by Yevhen Konovalets is formed.

1944: Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom)of the Ukrainian SSR and the CC of the CP(B)U resolve to take measures to combat homeless children in Ukraine.

July 31 1924: Polish government bans the usage of Ukrainian in the official institutions of Eastern Galicia (Halychyna).

1996: Narkobiznes processor-controlled database of illegal trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic agents in generated in Ukraine.

August 1 1923: All-Ukraine Central Executive Committee and the Radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR resolve to take measures to facilitate the development of the Ukrainian language.

1977: Central Artist’s House opens in Kyiv.

August 2 1914: Boiova Uprava of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen is formed as the legion’s organizing and coordinating center.

1990: Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR resolves to impose a moratorium on the construction of nuclear power and heavy duty radar traatraar tracking stations.

August 3 1935:The radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a program of physical education in the elementary and secondary schools.

1990: The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR passes the bill on economic independence of the Ukrainian SSR.

August 4 1687: The Cossack Rada (Council), held by the river Kolomak, elects Ivan Mazepa Hetman. A treaty known as the Kolomak Articles, is signed with Muscovy, providing for a 30,000-man Cossack Register and preserving.

2001: Preesident Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine starts on his visit to Bulgaria.