This week in history

Jan. 15 1826: The uprising of Ukraine’s Decembrists (Chernihiv Regiment) is suppressed in the vicinity of the village of Kovalivka.

1992: The Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes the Decree on the National Anthem of Ukraine (music by Mykhailo Verbytsky).

Jan 16. 1918: The Small Rada of the Ukrainian National Republic passes a bill organizing a volunteer army.

1919: Ukraine’s interim workers’ and peasants’ government adopts a decree on the nationalization of sugar refineries.

Jan. 17 1919: The Central Military-Revolutionary Committee of the Donbas is formed.

1921: The Ukrainian Free University is founded in Vienna, which is transferred to Prague later that fall. After World War II it is moved to Munich.

Jan. 18 1919: Ukraine’s interim government adopts a decree on the separation of church and state.

1944: The Volyn region witnesses the first serious confrontation between the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and NKVD troops.

Jan. 19 1906: The first issue of Shershen, the first revolutionary satirical periodical in the history of Ukrainian journalism, comes off the presses in Kyiv.

1992: On the initiative of the Ukrainian Republican Party and Rukh, Ukrainian reserve officers swear the oath of allegiance to Ukraine during a solemn ceremony.

Jan. 20 1661: The Polish king grants Lviv’s Jesuit Collegium “the status of academy and the title of university.”

1943: The first issue of the newspaper Ukrainske slovo comes off the presses in Winnipeg.

Jan. 21 1919: A popular assembly in the town of Khust resolves to join Transcarpathia to the Ukrainian National Republic.

1934: The 12th congress of the CP(B)U resolves to transfer Ukraine’s capital from Kharkiv to Kyiv.