This week in history

March 4: 1750. Kyrylo Razumovsky was elected the last hetman of Ukraine.

1919. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR issued a decree On Canceling Tuition Fee in Secondary Schools.

March 5: 1918. The Small Rada of the UNR approved a law On the Administrative Statute of the City of Kyiv.

1992. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a law On the Representative of the President of Ukraine.

March 6: 1919. An All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets took place in Kyiv, ratifying the Constitution of Ukrainian SSR.

1939. A monument to Taras Shevchenko was unveiled in Kyiv to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the poet’s birth.

March 7: 1921. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR approved a decree On Organizing Workers’ Faculties.

1967. The CPSU Central Committee, Council of Ministers of Ukrainian SSR, and All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions passed a decision on switching over from 5-days working week with two days off.

March 8: 1922. The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee passed a decision On Confiscating Church Values for the Fund to Support the Famished.

1946. A Council of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, initiated by People’s Commissariats for State Security and Internal Affairs, started in Lviv, approving a decision On Canceling the Beresteysk Union and Joining the Russian Orthodox Church.

March 9: 1930. A trial began in Kyiv of a group of Ukrainian intelligentsia accused of creating the Union of the Liberation of Ukraine underground counterrevolutionary organization.

1930. The first issue of the Nasha Zemlia [Our Land] weekly, legal organ of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine, was published in Lviv.

March 10: 1933. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR approved a decision On Organizing State Universities in Ukraine.

1992. Ukraine became member of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council.