This week in history

July 21 1944: The Institute of History and Archaeology at the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR is reorganized as two separate institutes.

1992: The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers the Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party and the Ukrainian Youth Association.

July 22 1819: Premiere of Ivan Kotliarevsky’s play Natalka Poltavka.

2001: The official visit to Ukraine of Jiang Zemin, head of the People’s Republic of China, begins. The Chinese leader and President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine sign a number of bilateral agreements.

July 23 1920: Poltava hosts the First Congress of Gubernial Committees of Poor Peasants (komnezamy), where the questions of strengthening these committees, the creation of an alliance between the working class and the middle peasantry, and the liquidation of banditry are discussed.

1990: Leonid Kravchuk is elected chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR.

July 24 1880: Members of a joint Narodna volia (People’s Will) and Chorny peredil (Black Partition) group are brought to trial in Kyiv.

1990: The true national blue-and-yellow flag of Ukraine is for the first time unfurled, along with the official flag of the Ukrainian SSR, in front of the building of Kyiv’s City Council of People’s Deputies.

July 25 1920: Russian White Army units launch an operation aimed at seizing the Donetsk Basin (Donbas) in the vicinity of Oleksandrivka.

1983: The construction of the 4,451 km Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod transcontinental gas pipeline is completed.

July 26 1648: Cossack regiments led by Maksym Kryvonis defeat the Polish army of Jeremi Wi?niowiecki near Starokostiantyniv.

1995: Moscow and Kyiv officials sign a treaty in Russia’s capital city on the main principles of creating Ukraine-Russia financial-industrial groups, on combined efforts in protecting the environment, etc.