This week in history 

March 9 1927. A Soviet-made sound movie apparatus was operated for the first time in the USSR. 1934. Veselka children's literature publishing house was founded. March 10 1878. A Hromada-funded pocket edition of T. Shevchenko's Kobzar was published in Geneva. 1933. The Ukrainian SSR Council of People's Commissars resolved to replace the Institutes of Public Education, which replaced universities after the revolution, with state universities in Ukraine. March 11  1921. The Ukrainian SSR Council of People's Commissars decreed the purchase of valuable cultural items from private persons for state-run museums. 1943. Soviet Partisans led by A. Fedorov began a raid in Volyn oblast. March 12 1917. The February Revolution began in Russia. 1992. Ukraine and Cuba established diplomatic relations. March 13 1944. Troops of the Third Ukrainian Front took Kherson. 1997.  Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus signed a treaty on the formation of a bank consortium. March 14 1822.  The first Ukrainian-language play was staged in a Kyiv theater. 1958.  A Kyiv all-purpose computer was developed at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. March 15 1919.   The Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater was founded in Dnipropetrovsk. 1990. The first volume of the Geographic Encyclopedia of Ukraine was published.