This day in history

1845: Ivan Puliuy, Ukrainian physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, and public figure, is born in Hrymailiv, Galicia.

1918: The Soviet Russia’s Council of People’s Commissars resolves to se­parate church from state and school from church.

1943: The Soviet troops finally defeat the Nazi German army in the Battle of Stalingrad.

1943: The Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet resolves to institute the medal “To Partisan of the Patriotic War,” 1st and 2nd degrees.

1944: Lutsk and Rivne are liberated from the Nazi invaders.

1961: The Kharkiv Transport Machine-Building Plant manufactures the TE-30 twin mainline diesel locomotive.

1976: Ukraine’s largest poultry factory, Horodenivska, is commissioned in Ivan-Frankivsk oblast.

2000: The president of Ukraine’s message to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, “Ukraine: Progress in the 21st Century. Strategy of the Economic and Social Policy for 2000-2004,” is made public.