This week in history 

June 29, 1945: Transcarpathian Ukraine is annexed to Soviet Ukraine.

June 29, 1967:  Soviet-Czechoslovak Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline becomes operational.

June 30, 1941:  the National Assembly proclaims the Act of Restoration of Ukrainian Statehood in Lviv.

June 30, 1956: CPSU Central Committee passes a resolution on the elimination of Joseph Stalin's personality cult and its consequences.

July 1, 1910: a student demonstration demanding the opening of a Ukrainian university is held in Lviv.

July 1, 1937: the USSR Council of People's Commissars adopts a resolution on state nature preserves.

July 2, 1976: a monument to Soviet citizens and prisoners of war executed by the Nazis in 1941-43 is unveiled at Babyn Yar without mentioning that most of the victims were Jews.

July 2, 1993: the first All-Ukrainian Convention of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists is held in Kyiv.

July 3, 1942: Soviet troops retreat from Sevastopol after 250 days of pitched battles.

July 2, 1974: the USSR and US sign a treaty restricting underground nuclear tests.

July 4, 1941: German occupation authorities arrest the government of independent Ukraine in Lviv.

July 4, 1958: the Kharkiv Tractor Factory produced its 500,000th tractor.

July 5, 1918: the First Congress of the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Ukraine opens in Moscow.

July 5, 1991: the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR passes a resolution instituting the office of the President.