This day in history

1917: The First All-Ukrainian Congress of Peasants opens in Kyiv.

1918: The All-Russia Commission on Preservation and Detection of Monuments to the Past is founded as Russia’s first research, restoration, and production center.

1934: The GULAG (acronym for the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps) is attached to the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR.

1940: A Soviet-German convention on the procedures of settlement of border conflicts and incidents is signed in Moscow.

1944: The State Symphony Orchestra of the Ukrainian SSR performs in Kyiv for the first time after a three-year interval.

1944: Soviet troops launch the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk offensive, defeating the Finnish army and capturing the northern part of Leningrad oblast and most of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic.

1951: The noted Ukrainian artist, Kateryna Bilokur, dies.