This day in history

1869: Date of birth of Mykola Tsertelev, Ukrainian folklorist, one of the first researchers and publishers of Ukrainian folk art.

1919: In Zhmerynka (Ukraine) an interim agreement on joint struggle against Anton Denikin’s Volunteer Army is signed by the UNR Army and Nestor Makhno’s insurgent detachments.

1929: Date of birth of Ivan Svitlychny, Ukrainian poet, critic, essayist, translator, and dissident.

1944: Soviet forces, advancing on the Wehrmacht, enter Czechoslovakia.

1973: The Charter of the All-Union Agency on Copyrights (VAAP) is adopted as that of the USSR’s only copyright organization.

1975: Zatoka Shipyard in Kerch launches the USSR’s largest Kuban tanker. 2008: Ukraine’s first IMAX movie theater starts functioning.