This week in history

29 November 1661. Lviv University was founded, now named for Ivan Franko.

1989. The reburial of victims of Stalinist repression took place in Ivano-Frankivsk.

30 November 1921. The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee passed a decision On an Amnesty for Workers and Peasants Who Served in Enemy Armies or Live Abroad.

1996. By a presidential order the Customs Service of Ukraine was established.

1 December 1990. The founding congress of the Party for Democratic Rebirth of Ukraine opened in Kyiv.

1991. The Ukrainian people confirmed the Act Proclaiming Ukraine’s Independence in a referendum, while Leonid Kravchuk was elected President of Ukraine.

2 December 1864. The first performance of Symon Hulak- Artemovsky’s opera, Zaporozhzhian Cossack Beyond the Danube took place in St. Petersburg.

1960. The biggest blast furnace in the world, the Kryvorizka-Komsomolska, was put into operation in Kryvy Rih.

3 December 1918. The Provisional Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of Ukraine approved a decree On Creating the All-Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter-Revolution, Sabotage, and Malfeasance - later known as the KGB.

1932. By a decision of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR trading meat and livestock was forbidden in all Ukraine’s regions evading execution of the state meat procurements plan.

4 December 1638. The Cossack Starshyna [senior officers] Council ratified the Ordinations of the Zaporozhzhian Register.

1925. The first issue of the Komsomolets Ukrayiny republican newspaper (from 1943 Molod Ukrayiny) was published in Kharkiv.

5 December 1917. The Ukrainian Academy of the Arts (now the National Academy of Pictorial Arts and Architecture) was created in Kyiv.

1994. A memorandum was signed in Budapest On Giving Ukraine Security Guarantees from the Nuclear Countries of the US, Great Britain, and Russia.