This week in history

January 29: 1805. A university founded by Vasyl Karazin opened in Kharkiv.

1918. Ukrainian students entered an unequal battle with superior forces of the Red Army expeditionary corps near the village of Kruty in Chernihiv oblast.

January 30: 1918. The UNR government turned to Germany and Austro-Hungary for military assistance in liberating Ukraine from the Bolsheviks.

1992. Ukraine became member of the OSCE Council in Helsinki.

January 31: 1920. The Communist Ukrayinski Shchodenni Visti [Ukrainian Daily News] newspaper began publication in New York.

1966. The Council of Ministers of the USSR passed a resolution establishing the Kyiv Trade and Economy Institute.

February 1: 1945. The Sergo Ordzhonikidze Kharkiv Tractor Plant began the serial production of tractors.

1993. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered Narodny Rukh [the People’s Movement] of Ukraine.

February 2: 1902 A demonstration by 15,000 workers and students took place in Kyiv under the slogan, Down with the autocracy!

1944. During the Rivne-Lutsk operation the troops of the First Ukrainian Front liberated Lutsk and Rivne.

February 3: 1860. The complete edition of Shevchenko’s Kobzar was published.

1966. The Luna-9 Soviet automatic station, launched on January 31, for the first time landed on the moon and transmitted a television picture of it.

February 4: 1793. Volyn and Podillia were annexed by the Russian Empire as a result of the second partition of Poland.

1945. The Yalta Conference of the heads of the governments of the USSR, USA, and Great Britain began, determining the balance of power in the world in general and in Europe in particular.