This week in history

July 22: 1918. Diplomatic representatives of Ukraine and Turkey exchanged ratification instruments on the Brest Treaty.

1941. Soviet troops abandoned Cherkasy to Nazi Germany.

July 23: 1975. The first section of the Kharkiv subway, the sixth in Ukraine began operation.

1992. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church removed the anathema from Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Mazepa imposed by order of Peter I.

July 24: 1974. The Volodymyr Sukhomlynsky Memorial and Pedagogical Museum was opened in the Pavlivka Secondary School.

1992. The Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (rector Vyacheslav Briukhovetsky) was solemnly opened in Kyiv.

July 25: 1958. The First Republic Conference of the All-Union Association of Inventors and Rationalizers took place in Kyiv, creating the Ukrainian Republic Council of the association.

1941. Nazi troops approached the Dnipro, having captured all of Right Bank Ukraine with the exception of Kyiv and Odesa.

July 26: 1943. The Chernihiv-Prypyat offensive operation began on the Central Front, resulting in Soviet troops advancing 300 kilometers westward.

1991. The Presidium of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada approved a law, On Temporary Suspension of the Activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

July 27: 1913. Pilot Petro Nesterov performed an aerial loop-the-loop for the first time in the world.

1977. The first block of the Chernobyl NPS with a capacity 1,000,000 kilowatts started up.

July 28: 1944. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR passed a decision, On Opening Orphanages for Children of Soldiers and Partisans Killed in the Great Patriotic War for the Fatherland.

1956. A monument to Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko was unveiled in Kyiv.