This day in history

1794: Hryhorii Skovoroda dies. He was a Ukrainian politician, philosopher, poet, musician, and author of a collection of 30 verses entitled Sad bozhestvennykh pisen (Garden of Divine Songs), numerous musical compositions and philosophic works.

1932: The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (Ukrainian SSR) adopts a decree on “revolutionary legitimacy.”

1956: Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopts a decree barring the former leaders of, and active participants in, the Ukrainian national underground [liberation] movement entry to the western regions of the USSR after serving their prison/camp terms.

1962: Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR resolves to rename Stanislav as Ivano-Frankivsk, and Stanislav oblast as Ivano-Frankivsk oblast.

1976: The Ukrainian Helsinki Group’s watchdog committee is established in Kyiv.

1977: The Ukrainian Helsinki Group publishes “The Manifesto of the Ukrainian Human Rights Movement.”