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The Ukrainian–Soviet War [1] (Ukrainian: радянсько-українська війна, romanized: radiansko-ukrainska viina) is the term commonly used in post-Soviet Ukraine for the events taking place between 1917 and 1921, nowadays regarded essentially as a war between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Bolsheviks (Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SSR).
The idea to call for an All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets was put forward by the Bolshevik faction within the executive committee of the Kyiv Council of workers' deputies during the united session of the executive committees of the councils (soviets) of workers' and soldiers' deputies of Kyiv city on 16 November [O.S. 3 November] 1917, soon after the Kyiv Bolshevik Uprising had failed to ...
On 16 September 2022, Sergei Gorenko, Prosecutor General of the Luhansk People's Republic, was killed in an explosion of an improvised explosive device in Luhansk. [172] On 25 September 2022, Oleksiy Zhuravko, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada, died in a Ukrainian airstrike in Kherson during the Ukrainian southern counteroffensive. [173]
The natural-gas industry flourished as well, and Ukraine became the site of the first post-war production of gas in the Soviet Union; by the 1960s Ukraine's biggest gas field was producing 30 percent of the USSR's total gas production. The government was not able to meet the people's ever-increasing demand for energy consumption, but by the ...
1939–1940: Deputy People's Commissar of the Food Industry, Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny [ a ] (18 February [ O.S. 5 February] 1903 – 12 January 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet , the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 ...
A statue of Petrovsky in Kyiv (the capital of Ukraine) was demolished in late November 2009, just days before the annual Ukrainian commemorating of the victims of the Holodomor. President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko had issued a decree ordering the removal of monuments to Soviet leaders, "in memory of the victims of the Holodomor". [2]
The Congress of Soviets was the supreme governing body of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and several other Soviet republics and national autonomies in the Soviet Russia and soviet Union from 1917 to 1936 and a somewhat similar Congress of People's Deputies from 1989 to 1991.
On 21 September, Yeltsin declared the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet dissolved; [43] this act was in contradiction with a number of articles of the Constitution of 1978 (as amended 1989–1993), such as, Article 121 6 [note 2] which stated: