This week in history

March 24 1935: A monument to Ukraine’s national poet Taras Shevchenko, designed by the sculptor Matvii Manizer, is unveiled in Kharkiv.

March 25 1993: The National Central Interpol Bureau is founded in Ukraine.

1994: Ukraine and Russia sign a 10-year cultural cooperation agreement.

March 26 1919: The Supreme Soviet of National Economy of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and the Soviet of National Economy of the Ukrainian SSR sign an agreement instituting a uniform economic policy.

1944: Troops of the Third Ukrainian Front launch the Odesa Offensive, liberating Mykolaiv and Odesa oblasts, and a considerable part of Moldova.

March 27 1943: The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR resolves to establish the Taras Shevchenko State Literary and Art Museum.

March 28 1957: The Kyiv Film Studio is named after the noted Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko.

1999: As part of the Sea Launch project, Ukraine’s carrier rocket Zenit 3SL is successfully launched from a floating platform near the equator.

March 29 1917: The newly-founded Hetman Polubotok Ukrainian Military Club is headed by Mykola Mikhnovsky, who begins forming a national army.

1993: Kyiv hosts the First All-Ukrainian Convention of Industrialists.

March 30 1651: In Bila Tserkva Bohdan Khmelnytsky holds talks with Myslawski, the envoy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

1821: The southern branch of the Decembrist Society is founded in Tulchyn.