This week in history

February 11: 1950. The KP(b)U Central Committee approved a decision On the Dnipro Magazine, containing standard allegations in anti-popular views, formalism, etc.

1989. A founding conference of the Taras Shevchenko Society of Ukrainian Language (later renamed into All-Ukrainian Prosvita Society) took place.

February 12: 1921. A Permanent Council to Fight Gangsterism was created under the Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

1960. First research nuclear reactor in Ukraine was put into action.

February 13: 1942. The compulsory gathering of the Ukrainians from the occupied territories for work in Germany as Ostarbeiters began.

1960. The Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR passed a decision to organize factory higher educational institutions and also industrial enterprises and workshops at institutions of higher education.

February 14: 1914. An election reform took place in Halychyna, allowing Ukrainians to occupy one-third of the seats in Sejm.

1993. Hungary, Poland, and Ukraine signed a declaration On the Cooperation between the Transcarpathian Peoples.

February 15: 1574. In Lviv Ivan Fedorov published reputedly the first printed book in the Ukrainian land, The Apostle .

1919. The Ukrainian National Rada passed a law On Using the Ukrainian Language in State Institutions.

February 16: 1929. The first Week of Ukrainian Literature began in Moscow.

1994. Representatives of the Ministries of Defense of Ukraine and Kazakhstan signed a communiquО On Expanding the Contacts between the Military Institutions of both countries in Almaty.

February 17: 1919. The Dyrektoriya approved the Declaration to the Governments of Entente and the US requiring support in its fight against Bolsheviks.

1943. The Third Conference of the OUN (Bandera) leaders decisively condemned collaboration with the Nazis and supported the necessity of USSR’s fight against Hitler’s Germany.