This week in history

May 29: 1738. An imperial Russian ukase was issued forbidding the Cossacks and peasants of Slobozhanshchyna (the eastern rim of Ukraine never under Poland-Lithuania) to join the Hetmanate and Russia.

1964. The largest botanical garden in the USSR was opened in Kyiv.

May 30: 1923. The Ukrainian History and Philology Society was founded in Prague.

1942. The State Defense Committee approved a decision to create the Central Headquarters for the Partisan Movement, the Ukrainian Central Headquarters for the Partisan Movement, and the headquarters of the fronts at the General Headquarters.

May 31: 1223. Rus’ princely retinues and the Polovetsian Army were defeated in battle by the Mongols at the Kalka River.

1935. The Council of Peoples’ Commissars and the Central Committee of the Communist Party ratified a decision on eliminating children’s homelessness.

June 1. International Day to Protect Children.

1996. At a conference of the ministers of foreign affairs of the Central European Initiative member states in Vienna a decision was ratified to accept Ukraine into the CEI as a full member.

June 2: 1771. Russia completed its conquest of the Crimea.

1980. The Kyiv Spring All-Union Festival was ended in Kyiv.

June 3: 1906. Ukrayinsky Visnyk (Ukrainian Herald), organ of the Ukrainian parliamentary club of the State Duma, began publication in St. Petersburg.

1907. Manifesto was published dissolving the Second State Duma and changing the law on elections marking the end of the Russian Revolution of 1905.

June 4: 1630. A battle of rebels led by Taras Triasylo took place near Pereyaslav.

1990. The First Congress of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church opened in Kyiv, electing Metropolitan Mstyslav (Stepan Skrypnyk) of the UAOC of America as Patriarch of Ukraine and the diaspora.