This week in history

July 4: 1941. German authorities arrested in Lviv the government of independent Ukraine.

1958. The 500,000th tractor came off the main production line at the Kharkiv Tractor Plant.

July 5: 1941. Soviet troops abandoned Chernivtsi after pitched battles.

1991. Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR passed the law on instituting the post of President of the Ukrainian SSR.

July 6: 1927. The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee passed a resolution on ensuring equal rights for all languages and promoting Ukrainian culture.

1958. The Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the Ukrainian SSR (now the National Exhibition Center) was inaugurated in Kyiv.

July 7: St. John the Baptist Day. 1659. Cossacks led by Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky routed a Muscovite army near Konotop.

1941. Kyiv bell to the Nazi German.

July 8: 1918. The State Senate, the highest judicial body of the Ukrainian state, was formed.

1997. The Charter on Special Partnership between Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was signed in Madrid.

July 9: 1783. By decree of the Military Collegium, Dnipro Left Bank Cossack regiments were converted into regular regiments of the Russian Army.

1961. A monument to the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko was unveiled in Winnipeg.

July 10: 1968. The Maksym Rylsky Memorial Literary Museum was opened in Kyiv.

1994. Leonid Kuchma was elected President of Ukraine.