This week in history

July 11 1925: The Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO) is founded in Lviv.

1960: The world’s largest continuous steel-casting installation begins operations at the metallurgical plant in Stalino (today: Donetsk).

July 12 1911: Ihor Sikorsky takes off from Kyiv with one passenger on board his aircraft.

1996: Ukrainian MPs swear allegiance to the people of Ukraine in accordance with the new constitution.

July 13 1935: The Politburo of the CC CP(B)U resolves to dissolve the Ukrainian branch of the Society of Old Bolsheviks.

1945: The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR and the CC CP(B)U pass a decision to establish the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR.

July 14 1948: Politvydav Publishers in Kyiv release the first volume of Lenin’s Works (4th ed.) in Ukrainian.

July 15 1920: The Kyiv Higher Institute of People’s Education is founded (today: Drahomanov National Pedagogical University).

1989: Coal miners’ strikes begin in the Donbas and western Ukraine.

July 16 1917: The Central Rada adopts the Statute of the Higher Administration of Ukraine, granting the Rada and the General Secretariat the rights of parliament and government, respectively.

1990: The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR adopts the Declaration of Ukraine’s state sovereignty.

July 17 1933: The first passenger boat sails from Kyiv to Kherson after the construction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station (Dniprohes) and the inundation of the Dnipro rapids.

1958: The Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR resolves to close 8 out of 40 monasteries in Ukraine.