This week in history

March 4 1919: The Council of People’s Ministers (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR issues a decree abolishing school fees.

1989: Kyiv hosts the Republican Founding Conference of Memorial, Ukraine’s historical-educational society.

March 5 1918: The Small Rada of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) ratifies the Law on the Administrative Status of Kyiv.

1992: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes a bill on the Representative of the President of Ukraine.

March 6 1919: The All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets is convened in Kyiv to adopt the Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR.

1939: A monument to Taras Shevchenko is unveiled in Kyiv to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Great Kobzar’s birth.

March 7 1921: The Radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree establishing a network of educational institutions called robfaks, aimed at preparing workers and peasants for higher education.

1967: The CC CPSU, the Council of Ministers of the USSR, and the All-Union Council of Soviet Trade Unions resolve to introduce a five-day work week with two days off.

March 8 1922: The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsVK) resolves to confiscate church valuables and transfer them to the Hunger Relief Fund.

1946: The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Synod, engineered and organized by the NKGB and the NKVD, convenes in Lviv.

March 9 1930: The trial of a group of Ukrainian intellectuals accused of creating an underground counterrevolutionary organization known as the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine starts in Kyiv.

1930: The first issue of the newspaper Nasha zemlia (Our Land), the organ of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine, comes off the presses in Lviv.

March 10 1992: Ukraine is admitted to the North Atlantic Council in Brussels.

1995: The National Bank of Ukraine holds the first closed auction to sell 1995 internal government bonds.