This week in history

April 1: 1922. The Artem Communist University was opened in Kharkiv.

1992. The Fund for Fundamental Research was created in Kyiv.

April 2: 1596. The Battle of Hostry Kamin took place near Kyiv between Severyn Nalyvaiko’s rebels and the army of Polish Crown Hetman Stefan Ziolkewski.

1991. A treaty On Friendship and Cooperation between Ukrainian SSR and Kyrgyz Republic was signed in Bishkek.

April 3: 1919. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR approved a decree On Proclaiming Ascania Nova and Yelysavetveld, Baron Falz-Fein’s Former Property, a People’s Park Preserve.

1995. The first official visit to Ukraine by a Western European Union delegation began.

April 4: 1936. The Experimental Ophthalmology Research Institute was founded in Odesa.

1996. The Supreme Council of the Crimea passed the law On the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.

April 5: 1992. By decree of Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, the Black Sea Navy was proclaimed Ukrainian.

1995. The first certificate auction took place at the Ukrainian Certificate Auctions Center in Kyiv.

April 6: 1654. The Ukrainian embassy received from Muscovite Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich an acknowledgement of the conditions on which the Zaporozhzhian Host gave its consent to a protectorate: preserving the political and legal system, social structure, and the army.

1992. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a decision to prepare a multi-volume scholarly and documentary publication on the victims of the repression in Ukraine.

April 7: 1990. The founding meeting of the Union for the Political Independence of Ukraine was founded in Lviv.

1993. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the All-Ukrainian Union of Local Studies (kraeznavstvo).