Featuring over 160 Ukraine historic photographs and documents 1918-1997
| 1910-1919 | ||
| 1918 | 
1918, May 1 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaThe first parade of the Red Army. The parade was initiated and organized by Lev Trotsky and attended by Vladimir Lenin and other Bolshevik’s leaders. The event consisted of the rally and parade on the Red Square and military parade and airshow at Khodynka Field. National Archives (Front) [1918, May 1. AA.] 
1918, May 1 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaThe first parade of the Red Army organized by the Bolsheviks. National Archives (Back) [1918, May 1. AB.] | |
| 1930-1939 | ||
| 1932 | 
1932, February 27 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineA group of children is pictured in the “red flag” factory at Kyiv, one of the technical schools instituted by the soviet union. AP Photo (Front) [1932, February 27. AA.] 
1932, February 27 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineA group of children ranging from 6 to 12 years is pictured in the “red flag” factory at Kyiv, one of the technical schools instituted by the soviet union. Through compulsory education the government also hopes by 1935 to eliminate illiteracy completely among its 150,000,000 population. AP Photo (Back) [1932, February 27. AB.] | |
| 1933 | 
1933, October 20 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaJOSEPH STALIN WITH KALININ. RUSSIA WILL REVEAL NEGOTIATIONS FOR RECOGNITION. International News Photo (Front) [1933, October 20. AA.] 
1933, October 20 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaRUSSIA WILL REVEAL NEGOTIATIONS FOR RECOGNITION. According to a copyrighted story released b the International News Service, the Soviet Foreign Office in Moscow will make public tonight (Oct. 20) at 11 p.m. (4 p.m. E.S.T.) The exchange of telegrams between President Roosevelt and President Michael Kalinin (left) of the All-Union Central Committee of Soviet Russia which have opened the way for early recognition of the Soviet Republic by the United States. According to the information, President Roosevelt is understood to have taken the initiative and to have despatched a telegram to Kalinin expressing willingness of his Administration open negotiations with the Soviets for the purpose of establishing relations and effecting an amicable settlement of outstanding differences. International News Photo (Back) [1933, October 20. AB.] | |
| 1933 | 
1933, November 18 – Chicago Daily TribuneUSAND RUSSIA IN ACCORD. U.S. Recognises Soviet Russia and appoints the Ambassador. Chicago Daily Tribune front page [1933, November 18. BA.] 
1933, November 18Chicago Daily Tribune.ROOSEVELT APPOINTS BULLITT AMBASSADOR. Chicago Daily Tribune article [1933, November 18. BB.] | |
| 1934 | 
1934, December 10 – Detroit, MichiganHelen Dobush and Anne Andrievna, Ukrainian chorus (Front) [1934, December 10. AA.] 
1934, December 10 – Detroit, MichiganHelen Dobush and Anne Andrievna, Ukrainian chorus (Back) [1934, December 10. AB.] | |
| 1938 | 
1938, October 17 – Chicago, Illinois5,000 Ukrainian Chicagoans protest against treatment of their nationality by Poland (Front) [1938, October 17. AA.] 
1938, October 17 – Chicago, IllinoisSome 5,000 Chicagoans of Ukrainian ancestry listening to speaker yesterday at mass meeting to protest against treatment of their nationality by Poland. They met at St. Nicholas field Rice and Leavitt streets. (Back) [1938, October 17. AB.] | |
| 1939 | 
1939, March 14 – Khust, RutheniaANNOUNCES INDEPENDENCE OF CARPATHO-UKRAINE. Photo shows Msr. Augustin Volosin, former Premier of Carpatho-Ukraine and present Head of the autonomous territory’s government, who announced today that “Ruthenia” is an independent state. The announcement was the first setback for Hungary’s proposal for annexation of Carpatho-Ukraine following the breaking up of Czecho-Slovakia by Adolf Hitler. The troops of four nations are now reported contending for Ruthenia. Photo from Wide World (Front) [1939, March 14. AA.] 
1939, March 14 – Khust, RutheniaANNOUNCES INDEPENDENCE OF CARPATHO-UKRAINE. Photo shows Msr. Augustin Volosin, former Premier of Carpatho-Ukraine and present Head of the autonomous territory’s government, who announced today that “Ruthenia” is an independent state. The announcement was the first setback for Hungary’s proposal for annexation of Carpatho-Ukraine following the breaking up of Czecho-Slovakia by Adolf Hitler. The troops of four nations are now reported contending for Ruthenia. Photo from Wide World (Back) [1939, March 14. AB.] | |
| 1939 | 
1939, November 10, 1939 – Soviet UkraineOVEN IN EVERY HOUSE. One tie with the old life in Ukraine is the oven built into every house. Each family bakes its own bread. ACME Photo (Front) [1939, November 10, 1939. BA.] 
1939, November 10, 1939 – Soviet UkraineOVEN IN EVERY HOUSE. One tie with the old life in Ukraine is the oven built into every house. Each family bakes its own bread. ACME Photo (Back) [1939, November 10, 1939. BB.] | |
| 1940-1949 | ||
| 1941 | 
1941, May 2 – Soviet UkraineWHAT HITLER NEEDSUkraine accounts for 80 percent of Soviet Russia’s Entire wheat crop. Collective and scientific farming, making use of tractors and mechanical combines, have increased the yield from Ukraine’s millions of fertile acres. ACME Photo (Front) [1941, May 2. AA.] 
1941, May 2 – Soviet UkraineWHAT HITLER NEEDSUkraine accounts for 80 percent of Soviet Russia’s Entire wheat crop. Collective and scientific farming, making use of tractors and mechanical combines, have increased the yield from Ukraine’s millions of fertile acres. ACME Photo (Back) [1941, May 2. AB.] | |
| 1941 | 
1941, June 28NAZIS THRUST AT HEART OF WORLD COMMUNISM. ACME Photo (Front) [1941, June 28. BA.] 
1941, June 28NAZIS THRUST AT HEART OF WORLD COMMUNISM. Moscow, center of world communism, is the object of a two-pronged Nazi attack in the north, designed at splitting Red Army forces and weakening Russians’ morale with capture of their capital. Farther south, a great tank battle rage as Germans pushed toward Kyiv, Ukraine capital. ACME Photo (Back) [1941, June 28. BB.] | |
| 1941 | 
1941, August 29 – Washington, District of ColumbiaWAverell Harriman will head Mission to the Soviet Union. ACME Photo (Front) [1941, August 29. CA.] 
1941, August 29 – Washington, District of ColumbiaWILL HEAD MISSION TO SOVIET. W. Averell Harriman, who will head the U.S. Mission to the Soviet Union, is shown as he arrived at the White House today for a conference with President Roosevelt. ACME Photo (Back) [1941, August 29. CB.] | |
| 1941 | 
1941, September 1 – Detroit, MichiganUkrainian Youth Chorus Trembita with Stephen Lucky directing (Front) [1941, September 1. DA.] 
1941, September 1 – Detroit, MichiganUkrainian Youth Chorus Trembita with Stephen Lucky directing (Back) [1941, September 1. DB.] | |
| 1941 | 
1941, September 11 – Dnipropetrovsk, Soviet UkraineWAR RUINS IN DNIPROPETROVSK. – Ruins in Dnipropetrovsk, in Russia’s Ukraine, according to German sources. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1941, September 11. EA.] 
1941, September 11 – Dnipropetrovsk, Soviet UkraineBLITZED. German armies advancing into Ukraine found Dnipropetrovsk in ruins such as shown in picture above, Nazi caption for this photo says. The picture was sent by radion from Berlin to New York yesterday. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1941, September 11. EB.] | |
| 1943 | 
1943, August 12 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineKYIV: CATHEDRAL RUINS. – Ruins of the Dormition сathedral in at the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Caves Lavra. AP Radiophoto (Back) [1943, August 12. AA.] 
1943, August 12 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineKYIV: CATHEDRAL RUINS. – An American Jeep is parked near ruins of Uspensky cathedral, Kyiv, Russia, which was blown up in 1941. Russians now occupy the city which was captured by the Germans in 1941. This picture was received in New York December 8 by radio from Moscow. AP Radiophoto (Back) [1943, August 12. AB.] | |
| 1943 | 
1943, August 14 – Kharkiv, Soviet UkraineKHARKIV AFTER RECAPTURE BY REDS LAST FEBRUARY. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1943, August 14. BA.] 
1943, August 14 – Kharkiv, Soviet UkraineKHARKIV AFTER RECAPTURE BY REDS LAST FEBRUARY. This picture shows destruction found in Kharkiv, Ukraine steel city, after it was taken by Soviet forces last February. The Germans later recaptured it but Moscow announced today that the Red Army has again obtained a firm hold about the city. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1943, August 14. BB.] | |
| 1943 | 
1943, November 6 – Kyiv, UkraineKyiv recaptured by the Russians. AP Wirephoto and Acme (Front) [1943, November 6. CA.] 
1943, November 6 – Kyiv, UkrainePhoto made last November 6, the day Russians recaptured Kyiv, of the central section of the city burning after German demolition and incendiary squads carried out “scorched earth” orders. AP Wirephoto and Acme (Back) [1943, November 6. CB.] | |
| 1944 | 
1944, March 27 – Soviet UkraineHE PLANED HIS CROP AS A SLAVE. This peasant of Ukraine planted wheat when he was prisoner of the Nazis and, here, he harvests that same crop after the area was set free by Red Troops. The Germans were in such a hurry to retreats, they did not have time to destroy the crop. A warlike soviet anti-tank rifle unit (background), marching westward. ACME Photo (Front) [1944, March 27. AA.] 
1944, March 27 – Soviet UkraineHE PLANED HIS CROP AS A SLAVE. This peasant of Ukraine planted wheat when he was prisoner of the Nazis and, here, he harvests that same crop after the area was set free by Red Troops. The Germans were in such a hurry to retreats, they did not have time to destroy the crop. A warlike soviet anti-tank rifle unit (background), marching westward. ACME Photo (Back) [1944, March 27. AB.] | |
| 1945 | 
1945, February 12 – Yalta, Soviet UkrainePRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ARRIVES FOR “BIG THREE” CONFERENCE. AP Photo from Signal Corps (Front) [1945, February 12. AA.] 
1945, February 12 – Yalta, Soviet UkrainePRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ARRIVES FOR “BIG THREE” CONFERENCE – Riding in an American Jeep, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is greeted at the airport in Yalta, Crimea, by Russian and British officials, with Russian honor guard at right. In group at left of the Jeep are: Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. (light coat), Russian Foreign Secretary Vyacheslav Molotov (arm upraised), and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain (light uniform coat beside Jeep). AP Photo from Signal Corps (Back) [1945, February 12. AB.] | |
| 1945 | 
1945, February 12 – Yalta, Soviet Ukraine“BIG THREE” CONFER IN YALTA. – Around the table at Yalta, Crimea, sit President Roosevelt, Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill and their staffs as they decide military plans for final defeat of Germany. AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps (Front) [1945, February 12. BA.] 
1945, February 12 – Yalta, Soviet Ukraine“BIG THREE” CONFER IN YALTA. – Around the table at Yalta, Crimea, sit President Roosevelt, Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill and their staffs as they decide military plans for final defeat of Germany. Around table are: (Clockwise from man at extreme left) Andrei Vyshinsky, Russian Vice Commisar of Foreign Affairs; Russian Foreing Minister Vyacheslav Molotov; Marchal Stalin; Ivan Naisky, Vice Commisar of Foreign Affairs; Andrei Gromyko, Russian Ambassador to U.S.; Adm. William D. Leahy; U.S. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinics, Jr.; President Roosevelt; Charles E. Bohlen, Cheif of State Department Division of Eastern European Affairs; James F. Byrnes, OWM Chief; Unidentified; Anthony Eden, British Foreign Minister; Prime Minister Churchill; Two Unidentified Men; Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Russia. AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps (Back) [1945, February 12. BB.] | |
| 1945 | 
1945, July 17 – Potsdam, GermanyStalin and Truman were all smiles at Potsdam conference. (Front) [1945, July 17. CA.] 
1945, July 17 – Potsdam, GermanyA history of meetings between leaders of the two world powers, United States and Russia, shows that immediate results do not usually appear, though such talks raise hopes high. Stalin and Truman were all smiles at Potsdam, top left in 1945. (Back) [1945, July 17. CB.] | |
| 1945 | 
1945, July 23 – Potsdam, GermanyALLIED UNITY! – Prime Minister Churchill, President Truman, and Premier Stalin. ACME Telephoto by Signal Corps Radiotelephoto (Front) [1945, July 23. DA.] 
1945, July 23 – Potsdam, GermanyALLIED UNITY! – Prime Minister Churchill, President Truman, and Premier Stalin shown in front of Churchill’s residence in the conference area just before a dinner party held there. ACME Telephoto by Signal Corps Radiotelephoto (Back) [1945, July 23. DB.] | |
| 1945 | 
1945, August 11 – Moscow, Soviet Russia“IKE” ARRIVES IN MOSCOW. Marshal Gregory Zhukov and General of the Army Dwight O. Eisenhower (Right) salute as the American and Russian national anthems are played at Moscow airport. ACME Radiophoto (Front) [1945, August 11. EA.] 
1945, August 11 – Moscow, Soviet Russia“IKE” ARRIVES IN MOSCOW. Marshal Gregory Zhukov and General of the Army Dwight O. Eisenhower (Right) salute as the American and Russian national anthems are played at Moscow airport after the American military man arrived in the Soviet capital on August 11th. General Eisenhower was honored by Generalissimo Stalin yesterday (August 12th) when he was invited to stand beside Stalin on a platform atop Lenin’s tomb to review a parade of 40,000 Soviet athletes. He was the first American ever honored with such an invitation. ACME Radiophoto (Back) [1945, August 11. EB.] | |
| 1945 | 
1945, August 13 – Moscow Oblast, Soviet RussiaHE’LL WEAR CIVVIES THIS TIME. President Eisenhower, a general when this 1945 photo was made, looked over a collective farm near Moscow on his visit to the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1945, August 13. FA.] 
1945, August 13 – Moscow Oblast, Soviet RussiaHE’LL WEAR CIVVIES THIS TIME. President Eisenhower, a general when this 1945 photo was made, looked over a collective farm near Moscow on his visit to the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. With the future president was his wartime ally, Marshal Georgi Zhukov, right in uniform. The President announced today (August 3, 1959) that he will visit Russia this fall following Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to the U.S. next month. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1945, August 13. FB.] | |
| 1946 | 
1946, October 14 – RUSSIA TODAYA bemedalled Red Army captain stands in a field of grain that grows around a knocked-out tank. NEA-ACME Photo by John Stroem (Front) [1946, October 14. AA.] 
1946, October 14 – RUSSIA TODAYA bemedalled Red Army captain, now serving as agronomist on the Mironovka Seed Selection station in Ukraine, stands in a field of grain that grows around a knocked-out tank. Unable to move the giant war machine from the field, the people simply farm around it. NEA-ACME Photo by John Stroem (Back) [1946, October 14. AB.] | |
| 1946 | 
1946, October 31 – Lake Success, New YorkDmitri Manuilsky, Foreign Minister Of Soviet Ukraine (Front) [1946, October 31. BA.] 
1946, October 31 – Lake Success, New YorkDmitri Manuilsky, Foreign Minister Of Soviet Ukraine (Back) [1946, October 31. BB.] | |
| 1947 | 
1947, August 19 – Berdychiv District, Soviet UkraineRUSSIA REAPING HUGE GRAIN HARVEST. ACME Photo (Back) [1947, August 19. AA.] 
1947, August 19 – Berdychiv District, Soviet UkraineRUSSIA REAPING HUGE GRAIN HARVEST. M. Shatelyuk, a Team Leader of the “Paris Commune” collective farm in the Bedychiv District of the Russian Ukraine, examines tye stalks on a farm in his district. Russia is expected to reap the largest grain harvest in many years. ACME Photo received from official Soviet sources, and caption material is supplied by Soviet authorities (Back) [1947, August 19. AB.] | |
| 1948 | 
1948, August 15 – FREEDOMAmong the many picturesque floats in Centennial parade was this Ukrainian entry depicting a caged woman under the “iron curtain” contrasted with freedom in the U.S. (Front) [1948, August 15. AA.] 
1948, August 15 – FREEDOMAmong the many picturesque floats in Centennial parade was this Ukrainian entry depicting a caged woman under the “iron curtain” contrasted with freedom in the U.S. (Back) [1948, August 15. AB.] | |
| 1948 | 
1948, October 7 – New York, New YorkTHREAT OF BOYCOTT CAME NEXT. Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet politician, prosecutor and jurist with Dmitri Manuilsky, Foreign Minister of Soviet Ukraine, voted negative on the Berlin situation at the UN Security Council. New York Bureau. Acme Photo (Front) [1948, October 7. BA.] 
1948, October 7 – New York, New YorkTHREAT OF BOYCOTT CAME NEXT. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky (Right) confers with Dmitri Z. Manuilsky, Foreign Minister of Soviet Ukraine after the United Nations Security Council adopted, by voted 9-2, an agenda that includes the Berlin situation. Vishinsky, who, with Manuilsky, voted in the negative, later announced that Russia would boycott discussion on the Berlin blockade. News Your Burea. Credit (ACME Photo by David S. Boyer, staff correspondent) (Back) [1948, October 7. BB.] | |
| 1949 | 
1949, February 8 – New York, New YorkKNEELING IN PRAYER in City Hall Plaza at New York, men and women protest the life sentence given to Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1949, February 8. AA.] 
1949, February 8 – New York, New YorkKNEELING IN PRAYER in City Hall Plaza at New York, men and women protest the life sentence given to Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, primate of Hungary. The placards denounce the conviction of the Catholic prelate on charges of treason. Mindszenty has appealed the sentence. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1949, February 8. AB.] | |
| 1950-1959 | ||
| 1950 | 
1950, December 12 – Kherson Region, Soviet UkraineKolkhoz in Kherson Region. Keystone Photo (Front) [1950, December 12. AA.] 
1950, December 12 – Kherson Region, Soviet UkraineKolkhoz in Kherson Region. Keystone Photo (Back) [1950, December 12. AB.] | |
| 1951 | 
1951, August 27 – New York, New YorkPICKETS’ SIGNS DENOUNCE GROMYKO AND COMMUNISM. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1951, August 27. AA.] 
1951, August 27 – New York, New YorkPICKETS’ SIGNS DENOUNCE GROMYKO AND COMMUNISM – Scores of pickets from the American-Hungarian Federation carry placards denouncing communism and Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko as they mass near pier where the Queen Elizabeth docked today with Gromyko aboard. The Soviet diplomat heads a 31-man delegation which is enroute to the San Francisco conference on the Japanese peace treaty. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1951, August 27. AB.] | |
| 1951 | 
1951, November 26 – New York, New YorkFaced masked, Ukrainian priests tell of Red oppression. Acme Telephoto (Front) [1951, November 26. BA.] 
1951, November 26 – New York, New YorkFaced masked, Ukrainian priests tell of Red oppression. Acme Telephoto (Back) [1951, November 26. BB.] | |
| 1952 | 
1952, August 24 – Chicago, IllinoisSenator Dirksen speaking for 10,000 Ukrainian Americans at annual Ukrainian day picnic. Tribune Photo (Front) [1952, August 24. AA.] 
1952, August 24 – Chicago, IllinoisSenDirksen (R., Ill.) speaking at annual Ukrainian day picnic in Riverview park yesterday. Approximately 10,000 Americans of Ukrainian origin heard Sen. Dirksen’s speech in which he termed the Ukrainians the “forgotten people” in the world-wide issue of freedom. (Tribune photo) (Back) [1952, August 24. AB.] | |
| 1952 | 
1952, October 13 – New York City, New YorkPICKETS GREET VISHINSKY. Pickets of Slavic and Hungarian organizations against arrival of Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet Foreign Minister, for the UN General Assembly. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1952, October 13. BA.] 
1952, October 13 – New York City, New YorkPICKETS GREET VISHINSKY. Pickets of Slavic and Hungarian organizations display signs and placards opposite pier 90 and 50th street in an anti-soviet demonstration during the arrivial of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky on the liner Queen Elizabeth here today. Vishinsky and Andreyi Gromyko, Russian ambassador to Great Britain, arrived to attend the seventh session of the U.N. General Assembly opening here tomorrow. There was no disturbance as the pickets were held behind police barricades. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1952, October 13. BB.] | |
| 1952 | 
1952, November 28 – New York, New YorkA DIPLOMAT’S JOB HAS ITS DRAWBACKS – Secretary of State Dean Acheson listening to Ukraine’s A.M.Baranovsky at UN Political Committee session. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1952, November 28. CA.] 
1952, November 28 – New York, New YorkA DIPLOMAT’S JOB HAS ITS DRAWBACKS – All but covering his ears is Secretary of State Dean Acheson at yesterday’s session of the United Nations Political Committee here. The glum diplomat was listening a familiar tirade by Ukraine’s A.M.Baranovsky, who joined fellow Red satellite representatives in condemning India’s much-amended Korea truce plan. Behind his chief is Ernest Gross of the U.S. delegation. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1952, November 28. CB.] | |
| 1953 | 
1953, February 23 – New York, New YorkAnti-soviet pickets fill area near pier 2/23, protesting arrival on liner Queen Mary of Soviet Minister Andrei Vishinsky. The Russian diplomat is here for the opening session of the UN General Assembly. United Press Telephoto (Front) [1953, February 23. AA.] 
1953, February 23 – New York, New YorkAnti-soviet pickets fill area near pier 2/23, protesting arrival on liner Queen Mary of Soviet Minister Andrei Vishinsky. The Russian diplomat is here for the opening session of the UN General Assembly. United Press Telephoto (Back) [1953, February 23. AB.] | |
| 1953 | 
1953, March 5 – New York, New YorkTwo soldiers, waiting to board trains in Pennsylvania Station, late 3/5, read about the death of Russian Premier Josef Stalin and display different reactions. Alex Fenton (left) of Pittsburgh leans on Roger Green of East Liverpool, who holds the newspaper. UNITED PRESS (Front) [1953, March 5. BA.] 
1953, March 5 – New York, New YorkTwo soldiers, waiting to board trains in Pennsylvania Station, late 3/5, read about the death of Russian Premier Josef Stalin and display different reactions. Alex Fenton (left) of Pittsburgh leans on Roger Green of East Liverpool, who holds the newspaper. UNITED PRESS (Back) [1953, March 5. BB.] | |
| 1953 | 
1953, March 6 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaWHERE STALIN’S BODY WILL BE PLACED – This is the mausoleum, left foreground, on Moscow’s Red Square in the shadow of the Kremlin, right, where body of Joseph Stalin will be placed on view next to that of Lenin. Funeral services for the Soviet premier who died yesterday will be at noon Monday. Lenin’s preserved body, exposed in a glass casket in the mausoleum, has been the shrine of world communism. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1953, March 6. CA.] 
1953, March 6 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaWHERE STALIN’S BODY WILL BE PLACED. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1953, March 6. CB.] | |
| 1953 | 
1953, March 9 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaPALLBEARERS CARRIED STALIN’S CASKET FROM HOUSE OF UNIONS TO RED SQUARE. From left, Shvernik, Kaganovich, Bulganin, Molotov, V. I. Stalin, Malenkov and Beria on right. UPI Photo (Front) [1953, March 9. DA.] 
1953, March 9 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaPALLBEARERS CARRIED STALIN’S CASKET FROM HOUSE OF UNIONS TO RED SQUARE. From left, Shvernik, Kaganovich, Bulganin, Molotov, V. I. Stalin, Malenkov and Beria on right. UPI Photo (Back) [1953, March 9. DB.] | |
| 1953 | 
1953, June 21 – Chicago, IllinoisUKRAINIAN-AMERICANS PARADE. Ukrainian Americans’ rally commemorating 1933 famine. Sun-Times Photo (Front) [1953, June 21. EA.] 
1953, June 21 – Chicago, IllinoisUKRAINIAN-AMERICANS PARADE. Marching to rally in armory at Kedzie and North, Americans of Ukrainian descent commemorate famine of 1933 in which millions perished. the observance was under sponsorship of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. Some paraders carry sign attaching “Russian Imperialism.” Sun-Times Photo (Back) [1953, June 21. EB.] | |
| 1954 | 
1954, October 14 – Cherkasy Region, Soviet UkraineElectric tractors ET-5 sowing buckwheat. North American Newspaper Alliance (Front) [1954, October 14. AA.] 
1954, October 14 – Cherkasy Region, Soviet UkraineSowing buckwheat with electric tractor in Ukraine, Cherkasi region. North American Newspaper Alliance (Back) [1954, October 14. AB.] | |
| 1955 | 
1955, July – Kharkiv, Soviet UkraineRED SQUASH- American farmers visit Dokuchayev Institute of Agriculture. Prof. V. Averin performs a minor operation on the vegetable for the benefit of William Reed, left, of Greensboro, N.C. and John Jacobs of Phoenix, Arizona. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1955, July. AA.] 
1955, July – KharkIv, Soviet UkraineRED SQUASH- American farmers and spectators appear to relish the discussion over a local example of squash during the visit of the touring American farm delegation to the Dokichayev institute of agriculture in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR. Prof. V. Averin performs a minor operation on the vegetable for the benefit of William Reed, left of Greensboro, N.C., and John Jacobs of Phoenix, Arizona. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1955, July. AB.] | |
| 1955 | 
1955, July – Kharkiv Region, Soviet UkraineTESTING RUSSIAN EQUIPMENT. Charles J. Hearst of Cedar Rapids, Ia, one of twelve U.S. farm leaders visiting USSR, is at the controls of a tractor during harvesting of clover at the Ukrainka experimental farm of the Ukrainian Livestock Research Institute. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1955, July. BA.] 
1955, July – Kharkiv Region, Soviet UkraineTESTING RUSSIAN EQUIPMENT. Charles J. Hearst of Cedar Rapids, Ia., one of twelve U.S. farm leaders making a tour of Russia, is at the controls of a tractor during harvesting of clover at the Ukrainka experimental farm of the Ukrainian Livestock Research Institute late in July. Others in picture are unidentified. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1955, July. BB.] | |
| 1955 | 
1955, August – Odesa Region, Soviet UkraineFULL HOUSE IN UKRAINE. Touring US farmers visit the home of a blacksmith on the Karl Liebknecht collective farm. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1955, August. CA.] 
1955, August – Odesa Region, Soviet UkraineFULL HOUSE IN UKRAINE. Touring U.S. farmers and their entourage fill the living room during a visit to the home of the Odesa region of Ukraine. Recognizable among the American farmers are Ralph Olsen, at the desk, of Ellsworth, Iowa; Walter Reed, Greensboro, N.C., at far left in doorway; and Lauren Soth, Des Moines, Ia. editor with cigar at right. Directly behind the seated Olsen is Horace Davis, of Oak Ridge, Louisiana (cq), agricultural advisor of the U.S. embassy in Moscow. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1955, August. CB.] | |
| 1955 | 
1955, August 2 – Soviet UkraineDuring their visit in Ukraine, D. Gale Johnson, former Viton Iowa farm youth, now an economics professor at the University of Chicago; Ralf Olsen, Elsworth Iowa farmer, and Lauren Soth, editorial editor of the Des Moines Register (L-R), talk with some Russian farm women here. United Press Telephoto (Front) [1955, August 2. DA.] 
1955, August 2 – Soviet UkraineDuring their visit in Ukraine, D. Gale Johnson, former Viton Iowa farm youth, now an economics professor at the University of Chicago; Ralf Olsen, Elsworth Iowa farmer, and Lauren Soth, editorial editor of the Des Moines Register (L-R), talk with some Russian farm women here. The group is standing in front of a stack of grain on the ground. United Press Telephoto (Back) [1955, August 2. DB.] | |
| 1955 | 
1955, August 3 – EA Kyiv, Soviet UkraineRuins of the Dormition сathedral in at the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Caves Lavra exploded during the World War II. North American Newspaper Alliance (Front) [1955, August 3. EA ] 
1955, August 3 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineA German bomb wrecked the 11th century basilica of the Assumption in Kyiv’s old monastery with its priceless mosaics and frescoes. Note the Latin cross on the old building and the Russian cross on the newer buildings. Nerth American Newspaper Alliance (Back) [1955, August 3. EB.] | |
| 1955 | 
1955, August 7 – Minneapolis, MinnesotaSOVIET FARM CHIEFS PICKETED. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1955, August 7. FA.] 
1955, August 7 – Minneapolis, MinnesotaSOVIET FARM CHIEFS PICKETED. The first mass demonstration against visiting Russian farm leaders brought an estimated of 400 Twin City Ukrainian Nationalists to the front of a Minneapolis hotel where the Soviets were staying today. Cars carrying anti-Russian placards were kept moving by police. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1955, August 7. FB.] | |
| 1955 | 
1955, August 13 – Chicago, IllinoisSOVIET FARM GROUP PICKETED. Soviet farmer group picketed by immigrants from Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Baltic region. Vladimir Matskevich, Soviet farm chief, entering cab at extreme right. AP Photo (Front) [1955, August 13. GA.] 
1955, August 13 – Chicago, IllinoisSOVIET FARM GROUP PICKETED. Members of the Soviet farm delegation are confronted by placard-carrying pickets as they enter a taxi outside Hilton Hotel in Chicago Aug. 13. They were enroute to airport for trip to Springfield, Ill., to attend the state fair. One of the pickets said his group was composed of recent immigrants from Soviet-dominated territory, including Esthonia, Lithuania, the Ukraine and Baltic region. That’s Vladimir Matskevich, Soviet farm chief, entering cab at extreme right. AP Photo (Back) [1955, August 13. GB.] | |
| 1955 | 
1955, August 15 – Chicago, IllinoisMore than two dozen Ukrainian pickets march in front of Michigan Avenue office building where the members of the Russian farm delegation held a press conference. United Press Photo (Front) [1955, August 15. HA.] 
1955, August 15 – Chicago, IllinoisMore than two dozen Ukrainian pickets march in front of Michigan Avenue office building here 8/15 as members of the Russian farm delegation visiting Chicago held a press conference-buffet supper in offices in the building. The atmosphere at the conference was quite pleasant but outside it was very serious. United Press Photo (Back) [1955, August 15. HB.] | |
| 1956 | 
1956, June 5 – New Haven, ConnecticutMembers of the Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic churches of New Haven carry anti-Communist slogans to protest the visit of 8 Soviet church leaders to Yale University here. United Press (Front) [1956, June 5. AA.] 
1956, June 5 – New Haven, ConnecticutMembers of the Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic churches of New Haven carry anti-Communist slogans to protest the visit of 8 Soviet church leaders to Yale University here. Some fifty demonstrators followed the Most Rev. Peter Oparenko (in clerical garb), pastor of New Haven Ukrainian Orthodox Church. United Press (Back) [1956, June 5. AB.] | |
| 1957 | 
1957, November 15 – East GermanySTERN BOSS- Soviet Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev, often pictured with a big smile on his face, also has his stern side, as shown in this picture taken on his recent state visit to East Germany. AP Newsfeatures Photo (Front) [1957, November 15. AA.] 
1957, November 15 – East GermanySTERN BOSS- Soviet Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev, often pictured with a big smile on his face, also has his stern side, as shown in this picture taken on his recent state visit to East Germany. He had just laid a wreath on a memorial monument of for Soviet soldiers killed during the battle for Berlin in World War II. Experts predict Khrushchev will have to display a lot of sternness in the coming months, for they see him sitting on a shaky throne in the Kremlin. AP Newsfeatures Photo (Back) [1957, November 15. AB.] | |
| 1958 | 
1958, April 15 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaKHRUSHCHEV WITH TEXAS PIANIST. Van Cliburn, left, tall Texan when won Soviet Union’s International Tchaikovsky piano contest, gets unstinted congratulations of Premier and Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1958, April 15. AA.] 
1958, April 15 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaKHRUSHCHEV WITH TEXAS PIANIST. Van Cliburn, left, tall Texan when won Soviet Union’s International Tchaikovsky piano contest, gets unstinted congratulations of Premier and Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev at reception in Moscow yesterday. In background is interpreted and at right is wife of Llewellyn Thompson, U.S. Ambassador to Russia. Khrushchev remarked about Cliburn’s height. The six-feet, four-inch pianist said of the premiere, “he’s a sweet man.” AP Wirephoto (Back) [1958, April 15. AB.] | |
| 1958 | 
1958, July-August – Soviet UkraineBIG FACTOR IN RUSSIA’S AGRICULTURAL BOOM. NEA Service Photo (Front) [1958, July-August. BA.] 
1958, July-August – Soviet UkraineBIG FACTOR IN RUSSIA’S AGRICULTURAL BOOM is increasing mechanization. But even this modern combine in Ukraine wastes manpower. Three men are shown running a machine one man would operate in America. NEA Service Photo (Back) [1958, July-August. BB.] | |
| 1958 | 
1958, October 18 – Milwaukee, WisconsinBrandishing placards, a booing ant catcalling crowd expressed its disapproval of Russian Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov’s appearance Friday night at the Woman’s Club of Wisconsin, 813 E. Kilbourn av (Front) [1958, October 18. CA.] 
1958, October 18 – Milwaukee, WisconsinBrandishing placards, a booing ant catcalling crowd expressed its disapproval of Russian Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov’s appearance Friday night at the Woman’s Club of Wisconsin, 813 E. Kilbourn av. Police said the crowd, composed mostly of Latvian and Ukrainian refugees, was orderly except for one man who tossed an apple at the ambassador. The apple thrower missed his mark. the pickets said ther were not trying to stop Menshikov from speaking, but wanted to alert Americans to the dangers of communism. The Russian amgassador to the United States spoke to some 200 persons at a dinner sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Milwaukee (Back) [1958, October 18. CB.] | |
| 1959 | 
1959, March 2 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineWearing a black fur cap, British Prime Minister Macmillan inspected an honor guard of Russian troops on his arrival at Kyiv from Moscow. Macmillan was in Russia to explore east-west attitudes on major issues including Berlin and Germany. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1959, March 2. AA.] 
1959, March 2 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineWearing a black fur cap, British Prime Minister Macmillan inspected an honor guard of Russian troops on his arrival at Kyiv from Moscow. Macmillan was in Russia to explore east-west attitudes on major issues including Berlin and Germany. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1959, March 2. AB.] | |
| 1959 | 
1959, July 24 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaTHE GREAT KITCHEN DEBATE. Vice President Richard Nixon played host to Premier Nikita Khrushchev in a tour of an American Exhibition in Moscow. The debate, held at the exhibit of a typical American kitchen, was on the merits of the Soviet and American ways of life. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1959, July 24. BA.] 
1959, July 24 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaTHE GREAT KITCHEN DEBATE. In the summer of 1959, the then Vice President Richard Nixon played host to then Premier Nikita Khrushchev in a tour of an American Exhibition in Moscow. the Group stopped at the exhibit of a typical american kitchen to renew a running debate on the merits of the Soviet and American ways of life. The debate, which was televised in both the Soviet Union and the U.S., came to be known as the “kitchen debate”. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1959, July 24. BB.] | |
| 1959 | 
1959, August 27 – Coon Rapids, IowaKHRUSHCHEV WANTS TO SEE HIM. Roswell Garst, 61, above, examining a stand of hybrid corn on his Coon Rapids, Iowa, farm, is one man Soviet Premier Khrushchev says he wants to see while in the United States. Garst, who has twice visited Russia, met Khrushchev previously. N.E.A. Photo (Front) [1959, August 27. CA.] 
1959, August 27 – Coon Rapids, IowaKHRUSHCHEV WANTS TO SEE HIM. Roswell Garst, 61, above, examining a stand of hybrid corn on his Coon Rapids, Iowa, farm, is one man Soviet Premier Khrushchev wants to see while in the United States. N.E.A. Photo (Back) [1959, August 27. CB.] | |
| 1959 | 
1959, September 12 – Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPROTEST KHRUSHCHEV VISIT TO U.S. Ap Wirephoto (Front) [1959, September 12. DA.] 
1959, September 12 – Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPROTEST KHRUSHCHEV VISIT TO U.S. – This is a view of rally held in Connie Mack Stadium here last night by several groups to protest Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to the United States. Rally was sponsored by the American Council of Christian Churches, American-Hungarian Federation. American Friends of the Anti-Bolshevik Block of Nations, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and other refugee groups. Rally organizers had predicted a crowd in excess of 15,000, but police estimated less than 1,000 were on hand. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1959, September 12. DB.] | |
| 1959 | 
1959, September 15 – Washington, District of ColumbiaMOON-ROCKET MODEL: President Eisenhower is examining a model of the sphere, which a Soviet moon rocket landed on the Moon. Soviet Premier Khrushchev gave him the model during a series of White House Talks. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1959, September 15. EA.] 
1959, September 15 – Washington, District of ColumbiaMOON-ROCKET MODEL: In Washington yesterday – President Eisenhower examined a model of the sphere which a Soviet moon rocket landed on the moon. Premier Khrushchev gave him the model. Secretary of State Herter, left background, and Alexandr Akalovsky, interpreter, attended the first of a series of White Huse talks. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1959, September 15. EB.] | |
| 1959 | 
1959, September 15 – Washington, District of ColumbiaPresident Eisenhower gestures as he talks with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev before formal dinner given in Latter’s honor at White House on September 15. UPI Telephoto (Front) [1959, September 15. FA.] 
1959, September 15 – Washington, District of ColumbiaPresident Eisenhower gestures as he talks with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev before formal dinner given in Latter’s honor at White House on September 15. UPI Telephoto (Back) [1959, September 15. FB.] | |
| 1959 | 
1959, September 23 – Coon Rapids, IowaSoviet Premier Khrushchev gets his first look at some Iowa grain near the Roswald Garst. UPI Telephoto (Front) [1959, September 23. GA.] 
1959, September 23 – Coon Rapids, IowaSoviet Premier Khrushchev gets his first look at some tall Iowa grain which is about chin high in the “Section” near the Roswald Garst. Khrushchev will spend (9/23) touring rich farmland near here leaving later for Pittsburgh to continue his tour of the U.S. UPI Telephoto (Back) [1959, September 23. GB.] | |
| 1959 | 
1959, September 25 – Washington, District of ColumbiaCAMP-BOUND. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1959, September 25. HA.] 
1959, September 25 – Washington, District of ColumbiaCAMP-BOUND: Today in Washington – President Eisenhower ushered Premier Khrushchev to a helicopter on the White House grounds for a flight to Camp David, Md. At center was a member of the crew. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1959, September 25. HB.] | |
| 1959 | 
1959, September 28 – Washington, District of ColumbiaFAREWELLS SAID. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1959, September 28. IA.] 
1959, September 28 – Washington, District of ColumbiaFAREWELLS SAID: In Washington yesterday – President Eisenhower said good-bye to Premier Khrushchev on the steps of Blair House after their return from week-end talks at Camp David, Md. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1959, September 28. IB.] | |
| 1959 | 
1959, October – Coon Rapids, IowaBARNYARD FLINGFarmer Roswell Garst, host to Soviet Premier Khrushchev, right, hurled cornshucks at some of swarm of newsmen crowding around as he led the Russian leader ontour of his Iowa acres in Sept. 1959. Walking along with Khrushchev was Henry Cabot Lodge, dark suit and glasses, then U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. AP Wirephoto. (Front) [1959, October. JA.] 
1959, October – Coon Rapids, IowaBARNYARD FLINGFarmer Roswell Garst, host to Soviet Premier Khrushchev, right, hurled cornshucks at some of swarm of newsmen crowding around as he led the Russian leader ontour of his Iowa acres in Sept. 1959. Walking along with Khrushchev was Henry Cabot Lodge, dark suit and glasses, then U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. AP Wirephoto. (Back) [1959, October. JB.] | |
| 1959 | 
1959, October 5Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, US Tour. LIFE magazine front cover [1959, October 5. KA.] 
1959, October 5Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, US Tour. LIFE magazine article [1959, October 5. KB.] | |
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| 1960 | 
1960, January 17 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaIn joint announcement from here and from Albany, Ga., where President Eisenhhower is holidaying, it was reported 1/17 that he is to visit Russia this June. The summit was later cancelled due to e Soviet downing of an American U-2 intelligence plane on May 1, 1960. UPI Telephoto (Front) [1960, January 17. AA.] 
1960, January 17 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaThe Kremlin (shown in file photo) forms symbolic background for file photos of Soviet Premier Khrushchev (upper left) and President Eisenhower (upper right). In joint announcement from here and from Albany, Ga., where President Eisenhhower is holidaying, it was reported 1/17 that he is to visit Russia this June. UPI Telephoto (Back) [1960, January 17. AB.] | |
| 1960 | 
1960, July 25 – Chicago, IllinoisDISTINGUISHED VISITORS RECEIVE A PRESENT. Vice President Nixon and Mrs. Nixon receive a gift from girl in Ukrainian native attire at the Republican Convention. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1960, July 25. BA.] 
1960, July 25 – Chicago, IllinoisDISTINGUISHED VISITORS RECEIVE A PRESENT. Girl in Ukrainian native attire presents a gift to Vice President Nixon and Mrs. Nixon today at Chicago’s O’Hare field. The Vice President, arriving in Republican Convention city, spent some time with crowd of people which went to airport to greet him, and Mrs. Nixon. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1960, July 25. BB.] | |
| 1960 | 
1960, September 11 – New York, New YorkProtesting Against Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s Coming visit to the United Nations, a demonstrator holds up a caricature while picketing the Manhattan headquarters of the Soviet U.N. delegation 9/11. Placard read: “Diplomacy of the Highest Level.” UPI Telephoto (Front) [1960, September 11. CA.] 
1960, September 11 – New York, New YorkProtesting Against Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s Coming visit to the United Nations, a demonstrator holds up a caricature while picketing the Manhattan headquarters of the Soviet U.N. delegation 9/11. Placard read: “Diplomacy of the Highest Level.” UPI Telephoto (Back) [1960, September 11. CB.] | |
| 1960 | 
1960, September 19 – New York, New YorkANTI-RUSSIAN DEMONSTRATIONS DRAW SOVIET PROTEST. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1960, September 19. DA.] 
1960, September 19 – New York, New YorkANTI-RUSSIAN DEMONSTRATIONS DRAW SOVIET PROTEST – Demonstrations against Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to the United Nations, such as this one by unidentified pickets in New York today, have drawn a protest by ranking Russian officials. Russian spokesmen claim demonstrators’ charges are untrue and that police are remiss in failing to quell them. New York police officials say there is no law against pickets so long as they keep their distance and do not endanger Mr. K. Pickets claim allegiance to anti-Red European refugee groups. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1960, September 19. DB.] | |
| 1960 | 
1960, September 21 – New York City, New YorkHAPPY: Soviet Premier Khrushchev at the UN building with Nikolai Podgorny, right, head of the Ukrainian delegation to the UN. During this UN General Assembly, the Shoe-banging incident happened three weeks later. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1960, September 21. FA.] 
1960, September 21 – New York City, New YorkHAPPY: In New York yesterday – Soviet Premier Khrushchev was in an expansive mood as he arrived at the United Nations Building. So was Nikolai Podgorny, right, head of the Ukrainian delegation to the U.N. The others were unidentified. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1960, September 21. FB.] | |
| 1961 | 
1961, February 8 – New York, New YorkBACK FOR TALK WITH KENNEDY. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1961, February 8. AA.] 
1961, February 8 – New York, New YorkBACK FOR TALK WITH KENNEDY – Llewellyn Thompson, U.S. ambassador to Moscow to confer with President Kennedy in Washington. Thompson continued his trip by train because of weather conditions in Washington. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1961, February 8. AB.] | |
| 1961 | 
1961, June 4 – Vienna, AustriaFACE TO FACE – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and President Kennedy. AP Wirephoto via radio from Vienna (Front) [1961, June 4. BA.] 
1961, June 4 – Vienna, AustriaFACE TO FACE – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and President Kennedy stand face to face in Russian embassy in Vienna today before starting second day of talks on world affairs. In center is Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. AP Wirephoto via radio from Vienna (Back) [1961, June 4. BB.] | |
| 1961 | 
1961, June 4 – Vienna, AustriaKHRUSHCHEV WITH KENNEDY. Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev with the US President John F. Kennedy at the summit conference, where the two leaders discussed the problems of nuclear disarmament, Berlin, and Laos. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1961, June 4. CA.] 
1961, June 4 – Vienna, AustriaKHRUSHCHEV WITH KENNEDY. Former Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, whom unofficial Soviet sources said died Saturday, is shown with President John F. Kennedy in Vienna on June 3, 1961. At the summit conference the two leaders discussed the problems of nuclear disarmament, Berlin and Laos. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1961, June 4. CB.] | |
| 1961 | 
1961, June 4 – Vienna, AustriaA grim Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev poses with President Kennedy following their second summit meeting at the Soviet Embassy here June 4. UPI Radiotelephoto (Front) [1961, June 4. DA.] 
1961, June 4 – Vienna, AustriaA grim Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev poses with President Kennedy following their second summit meeting at the Soviet Embassy here June 4. UPI Radiotelephoto (Back) [1961, June 4. DB.] | |
| 1961 | 
1961, June 4 – Vienna, AustriaIN VIENNA: Soviet Premier Khrushchev admires Mrs. John F. Kennedy at the dinner during historic Vienna Summit AP Photo (Front) [1961, June 4. EA.] 
1961, June 4 – Vienna, AustriaIN VIENNA: Soviet Premier Khrushchev made no secret of his admiration for Mrs. John F. Kennedy when the late President and the First Lady met the Russian leader. AP Photo (Back) [1961, June 4. EB.] | |
| 1961 | 
1961, July 9 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaA giant helicopter Mi-6 carries “Vostok,” Gagarin’s space capsule (or its replica) during air parade 7/9. UPI Radiotelephoto (Front) [1961, July 9. FA.] 
1961, July 9 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaA giant helicopter carries “Vostok,” Gagarin’s space capsule (or its replica) during air parade 7/9. The Soviet Union unveiled 7/9 at least 10 new types of warplanes in its first public demonstration of air power since 1956. UPI Radiotelephoto (Back) [1961, July 9. FB.] | |
| 1961 | 
1961, August 9 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaMR K AND HIS BOYS – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev puts his arms around Russian spacemen Gherman Titov, left, and Yuri Gagarin at reception in honor Titov in Moscow today. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1961, August 9. GA.] 
1961, August 9 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaPREMIER KHRUSHCHEV HAS HIS HAPPY MOMENTS. Spacemen Titov and Gagarin get buddy treatment from their boss. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1961, August 9. GB.] | |
| 1962 | 
1962, July 1 – Detroit, MichiganUkraine Flavor at Festival. Ukrainian sisters Marta, Myra, Luba, and Mrs. Sawczuk prepare to perform folk dance in the Freedom Festival International Gala in Cobo Hall. Detroit Free Press (Front) [1962, July 1. AA.] 
1962, July 1 – Detroit, MichiganUkraine Flavor at Festival. Ukrainian sisters Marta, Myra, Luba, and Mrs. Sawczuk prepare to perform folk dance in the Freedom Festival International Gala in Cobo Hall. Detroit Free Press (Back) [1962, July 1. AB.] | |
| 1963 | 
1963, January 19 – Berlin, East GermanyKHRUSHCHEV DISPLAYS HIS TEDDY BEAR. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1963, January 19. AA.] 
1963, January 19 – Berlin, East GermanyKHRUSHCHEV DISPLAYS HIS TEDDY BEAR – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev shows off the stuffed teddy bear which was presented to him during his visit to an East Berlin electronics factory yesterday. With him on his factory visit is Nicolai Podgorny, Ukrainian communist leader. While Khrushchev was at the factory, Wu Hsiu-Chuan, Communist China’s top delegate to the East German communist party congress in East Berlin, made a speech rejecting the Soviet leader’s advice to soft-pedal the Moscow-Peking dispute. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Berlin). AP Wirephoto (Back) [1963, January 19. AB.] | |
| 1963 | 
1963, March 11 – Baltimore, MarylandFREEDOM ROUTE- Dicks family after their 20 years Freedom Route. They were forced to flee Ukraine taken over by the Communists (Front) [1963, March 11. BA.] 
1963, March 11 – Baltimore, MarylandFREEDOM ROUTE- The arrows on the map indicate the route taken by the Dicks in their twenty-year search for freedom. In all of the countries that they hoped to find this freedom they were forced to flee when the Communists took over. In Baltimore, their final destination after thousands of miles, they hope to live in the freedom and peace that eluded them for so many years. (Back) [1963, March 11. BB.] | |
| 1964 | 
1964, January 17 – Kalinin, Soviet RussiaCuban Premier Fidel Castro applauds as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev speaks to mill workers at a mass meeting in Kalinin (now Tver) 1/17. UPI Radiophoto from TASS (Front) [1964, January 17. AA.] 
1964, January 17 – Kalinin, Soviet RussiaCuban Premier Fidel Castro applauds as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev speaks to mill workers at a mass meeting in Kalinin (now Tver) 1/17. Krushchev pledged a new unbreakable friendship for Cuba at the gathering at which he and Castro received thunderous ovations. UPI Radiophoto from TASS (Back) [1964, January 17. AB.] | |
| 1964 | 
1964, June – Washington, District of ColumbiaShevchenko Monument in Washington DC and its sculptor, Ukrainian-born, Leo Mol. Taras Shevchenko, died in 1861, was a Ukrainian poet and artist and an original European freedom fighter. President Harry Truman was an honorary chairman of the dedication. (Front) [1964, June. BA.] 
1964, June – Washington, District of ColumbiaShevchenko Monument in Washington DC and its sculptor, Ukrainian-born, Leo Mol. Taras Shevchenko, died in 1861, was a Ukrainian poet and artist and an original European freedom fighter. President Harry Truman was an honorary chairman of the dedication. (Back) [1964, June. BB.] | |
| 1964 | 
1964, June 27 – Washington, District of ColumbiaEISENHOWER UNVEILS STATUE. Former US President Eisenhower unveils the statue of Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and artist and freedom fighter. Thousands of Americans of Ukrainian descent attended the ceremony. (Front) [1964, June 27. CA.] 
1964, June 27 – Washington, District of ColumbiaEISENHOWER UNVEILS STATUE. Former US President Eisenhower tugs on a rope today to help unveil a statue of Taras Shevchenko, 19th century Ukrainian poet, in a Washington park. In a dedication speech Eisenhower said Shevchenko “expressed… eloquently man’s undying determination to fight for freedom.” Thousands of Americans of Ukrainian descent attended the ceremony. (Back) [1964, June 27. CB.] | |
| 1964 | 
1964, JuneTaras Shevchenko Monument dedicated in Washington, District of Columbia. (Front) [1964, June. DA.] 
1964, JuneTaras Shevchenko Monument dedicated in Washington, District of Columbia. (Back) [1964, June. DB.] | |
| 1965 | 
1965, December 8 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaVIET NAM PROTEST IN MOSCOW – People of the Kyiv district of Moscow march in a demonstration during today’s mass protests in Moscow against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1965, December 8. AA.] 
1965, December 8 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaVIET NAM PROTEST IN MOSCOW. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1965, December 8. AB.] | |
| 1967 | 
1967, March 31 – Washington, District of ColumbiaWITHOUT FANFARE – President Johnson signing the U.S. consular treaty with the Soviet Union. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1967, March 31. AA.] 
1967, March 31 – Washington, District of ColumbiaWITHOUT FANFARE – President Johnson sits alone in his white house office today, signing the U.S. consular treaty with the Soviet Union. The President approved the treaty without comment and without fanfare. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1967, March 31. AB.] | |
| 1968 | 
1968, January 21 – Chicago, IllinoisMykola Livickji, President of the Ukrainian National Republic in Exile after he addressed the 50th Anniversary of Ukrainian Independence Banquet. Sun-Times Photo by Mickey Rito (Front) [1968, January 21. AA.] 
1968, January 21 – Chicago, Illinois50th Anniversary of Ukrainian Independence Dinner. 7-year-old Lydia Ann Czopiwsky of Zion, Ill. presented bouquet of flowers to Mr. Mykola Livickji, president of the Ukrainian National Republic in Exile after he addressed the 50th Anniversary of Ukrainian Independence Banquet. Her both grandfathers were active members of the First Independent Ukrainian Government. Sun-Times Photo by Mickey Rito (Back) [1968, January 21. AB.] | |
| 1968 | 
1968, April 27 – Chicago, IllinoisUkrainian-Americans participate in the annual Loyalty Day parade. Sun-Times Photo by Pete Peters (Front) [1968, April 27. BA.] 
1968, April 27 – Chicago, IllinoisUkrainian-Americans bear a banner down State Street in the annual Loyalty Day parade Saturday. Thousands of veterans, including representatives of all the U.S. armed forces, participated in the parade. Sun-Times Photo by Pete Peters (Back) [1968, April 27. BB.] | |
| 1969 | 
1969, July 1 – New York City, New YorkRehearsal of the Soviet Ukrainian chorus and dancers performing with bandura, a national Ukrainian musical instrument. Keystone Press Agency (Front) [1969, July 1. AA.] 
1969, July 1 – New York City, New YorkRehearsal of the Soviet Ukrainian chorus and dancers performing with bandura, a national Ukrainian musical instrument. Keystone Press Agency (Back) [1969, July 1. AB.] | |
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| 1970 | 
1970, April 25 – Chicago, IllinoisUkrainian American youth’s protest U.N. honoring of Lenin. Photo by Walker (Front) [1970, April 25. AA.] 
1970, April 25 – Chicago, IllinoisUkrainian-American youth’s protest U.N. honoring of Lenin. They marched around the civic center dragging a Communist flag. Star Ziemba Story. Photo by Walker (Back) [1970, April 25. AB.] | |
| 1971 | 
1971, January 30 – Chicago, IllinoisUkrainian Student Organization protest the arrest and sentence of Valentyn Moroz by the Soviet Union in November 1970. Valentyn Moroz was one of the most prominent representatives of the Ukrainian National Division for the freedom of Ukraine from the Soviet Russia. Photo by Dave Nystrom (Front) [1971, January 30. AA.] 
1971, January 30 – Chicago, IllinoisApproximately 100 members of the “Ukrainian Student Organization” met at the Civic Center to protest the arrest and sentence of Valentyn Moroz in November of 1970 by the Soviet Union. They marched to Stae Street thereupon several members ere arrested and then the group returned to the center. Photo by Dave Nystrom (Back) [1971, January 30. AB.] | |
| 1971 | 
1971, March 21 – Washington, District of ColumbiaANTI-SOVIET SIT-DOWN. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1971, March 21. BA.] 
1971, March 21 – Washington, District of ColumbiaANTI-SOVIET SIT-DOWN – Police move in to make several hundred peaceful arrests today in a group staging a sitdown on 16th street in Washington to protest Soviet treatment of Jews. Some 2,500 marched from near the White House, right, to a block from the Soviet Embassy where they sat down. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1971, March 21. BB.] | |
| 1971 | 
1971, May 21 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineSIGHTSEEING IN KYIV – Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, left, walks arm-in-arm with his wife, Margaret, Friday near the Shevchenko Monument in Kyiv. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1971, May 21. CA.] 
1971, May 21 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineSIGHTSEEING IN KYIV – Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, left, walks arm-in-arm with his wife, Margaret, Friday near the Shevchenko Monument in Kyiv, Russia. No other identification is known. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1971, May 21. CB.] | |
| 1971 | 
1971, September 11 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaKHRUSHCHEV IN U.S. – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s dies at the age of 77. He was the first Soviet leader to travel across the United States. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1971, September 11. DA.] 
1971, September 11 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaKHRUSHCHEV IN U.S. – Nikita S. Khrushchev, sho died Saturday at the age of 77, was the only Russian leader ever to travel across the United States. Top left, he holds ear of corn grown on farm of Roswell Garst in Coon Rapids, Iowa; top right, he prepares to eat a hot dog in Des Moines. Bottom, farmer Roswell Garst, right, yells at newsmen as Khrushchev, left, toured his farm at Coon Rapids in September 1959. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1971, September 11. DB.] | |
| 1971 | 
1971, October 30 – Chicago, IllinoisUkrainian Student Organization’s all night vigil and demonstration against Russian Oppression of Ukrainian people in the Civic Center Plaza. Photo by Walter Kale (Front) [1971, October 30. EA.] 
1971, October 30 – Chicago, IllinoisAll-night vigil and demonstration by the Ukrainian Student Organization against Russian oppression of Ukrainian people. Photo by Walter Kale (Back) [1971, October 30. EB.] | |
| 1971 | 
1971, October 30 – Chicago, IllinoisUkrainian Student Organization’s all night vigil in the Civic Center Plasa, protesting from the Soviet-dominated campaign against Ukrainian writers, scholars, clergymen and workers. Chicago Sun-Times (Front) [1971, October 30. FA.] 
1971, October 30 – Chicago, IllinoisA casket is surrounded by a small group representing the Ukrainian Student Organization during an all-night vigil on the Civic Center Plaza. They were protesting what they charged was a Soviet-dominated campaign against Ukrainian writers, scholars, clergymen and workers. Chicago Sun-Times (Back) [1971, October 30. FB.] | |
| 1972 | 
1972, February 6 – Detroit, MichiganNatalia Konopada and Linda Jurkiv, American teens of Ukrainian decent protest the Soviet Union’s arrest of Ukrainian artists and intellectuals.in front of the Masonic Auditorium. Detroit News Photo by Henry F. Wittenberg (Front) [1972, February 6. AA.] 
1972, February 6 – Detroit, MichiganNatalia Konopada and Linda Jurkiv, American teens of Ukrainian decent protest the Soviet Union’s arrest of Ukrainian artists and intellectuals.in front of the Masonic Auditorium. The protest took place after the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists had set off a stink bomb during the matinee concert of the Osipov Balalaika Ochestra of the Soviet Union. Detroit News Photo by Henry F. Wittenberg (Back) [1972, February 6. AB.] | |
| 1972 | 
1972, May 19 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineSTREET IN KYIV – This is view of Shevchenko Boulevard, lined with chestnut trees in Kyiv, where President Nixon is scheduled to visit during his trip to Russia. AP Wirephoto [1972, May 19. BA.] 
1972, May 19 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaThis picture from Tass, the official Soviet news agency, shows the interior of the Kremlin residence for honored guests, where President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, will stay during their visit to the Soviet Union. AP Wirephoto [1972, May 19. BB.] | |
| 1972 | 
1972, May 20 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineKYIV STREET SCENE – this is a view of Khreshchatik Street in Kyiv. Photo from Tass, the Soviet agency. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1972, May 20. CA.] 
1972, May 20 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineKYIV STREET SCENE – this is a view of Khreshchatik Street in the Russian city of Kyiv. It is the main street and the most beautiful highway in the capital of Ukraine. Photo from Tass, the Soviet agency. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1972, May 20. CB.] | |
| 1972 | 
1972, May 24 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaRED SQUARE – Mrs. Pat Nixon waves as she walks through Red Square. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1972, May 24. DA.] 
1972, May 24 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaRED SQUARE – Mrs. Pat Nixon waves as she walks through Red Square today. In the background is the St. Basil’s Cathedral. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1972, May 24. DB.] | |
| 1972 | 
1972, May 29 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineARRIVAL OF PRESIDENT NIXON IN KYIV’S AIRPORT. Left to right: Chairman of Ukrainian Supreme Soviet A. Lyashko, Mr. and Mrs. Nixon. TASS (Front) [1972, May 29. EA.] 
1972, May 29 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineARRIVAL OF PRESIDENT NIXON IN KYIV’S AIRPORT. Left to right: Chairman of Ukrainian Supreme Soviet A. Lyashko, Mr. and Mrs. Nixon. TASS (Back) [1972, May 29. EB.] | |
| 1972 | 
1972, May 29 – Kyiv, Soviet, UkraineBIGGEST WELCOMEMotorcade carrying President and Mrs. Nixon upon arrival in Ukrainian capital. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1972, May 29. FA.] 
1972, May 29 – Kyiv, Soviet, UkraineBIGGEST WELCOMEMotorcade carrying President and Mrs. Nixon sweeps past a Kyiv housing complex lined with welcomers on arrival in Ukrainian capital today. Communist party slogans in background. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1972, May 29. FB.] | |
| 1972 | 
1972, May 29 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineTHEIR VISITORPresident Nixon shakes hands with Kyiv residents. AP Wirephoto from TASS (Front) [1972, May 29. GA.] 
1972, May 29 – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineTHEIR VISITORPresident Nixon shakes hands with Kyiv residents who showed up to greet him on his arrival here today from Moscow. AP Wirephoto from TASS (Back) [1972, May 29. GB.] | |
| 1972 | 
1972, May 30 – Kyiv, Soviet UkrainePresident and Mrs. Nixon waved Tuesday before entering the presidential jet at Kyiv for a trip Iran. UPI Photo (Front) [1972, May 30. HA.] 
1972, May 30 – Kyiv, Soviet UkrainePresident and Mrs. Nixon waved Tuesday before entering the presidential jet at Kyiv for a trip Iran. UPI Photo (Back) [1972, May 30. HB.] | |
| 1972 | 
1972, October-NovemberDukla Ukrainian Dance Company from Czechoslovakia toured for two months in Los Angeles, California, New York, New York and Washington, District of Columbia. (Front) [1972, October-November. IA.] 
1972, October-NovemberDukla Ukrainian Dance Company from Czechoslovakia toured for two months in Los Angeles, California, New York, New York and Washington, District of Columbia. The company, named after a mountain pass in the Carpathian range, was formed in 1955 as part of the Czechoslovak Government’s effort to give native Ukrainians a new means of national cultural expression. Dukla company was brought to the U.S. by Sol Hurok, a successful American impresario of Ukrainian descent (Back) [1972, October-November. IB.] | |
| 1973 | 
1973, June 17 – Washington, District of ColumbiaThe demonstrators gathered at the Capitol to urge Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to permit Jews to emigrate freely from the Soviet Union. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1973, June 17. AA.] 
1973, June 17 – Washington, District of ColumbiaA MAN IDENTIFIED AS SEMION P. REMOVSKY is carried on the shoulders of protestors at the Capitol yesterday. The demonstrators gathered to urge Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to permit Jews to emigrate freely from the Soviet Union. Brezhnev was at Camp David prior to meeting with President Nixon today. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1973, June 17. AB.] | |
| 1973 | 
1973, July 30/31 – Crimea, Soviet UkraineMeeting of Friends in Crimea. Top leaders of the Communist countries and members of the Warsaw Pact (except Mongolia). Janos Kadar, Hungarian Premier (1956-8) and first secretary of the Communist Party (1956-88), Gustav Husak, Czechoslovakian President (1975-89), Leonid Brezhnev, Erich Honecker, Chairman of the Council of State of the East Germany (GDR), Yumsjhagiin Tsedenbal, Prime Minister of Mongolia and Alexey Nikolayevich Kosygin, Soviet Premier (1964-80). ADN-ZB/German Democratic Republic (Front) [1973, July 30/31. BA.] 
1973, July 30/31 – Crimea, Soviet UkraineMeeting of Friends in Crimea. The Crimea meetings of the Leaders of the Communist and Labor Parities of the Socialist Countries (our Photo) have become a good tradition. These meetings serve the coordination of the policies of the brother-parties in the national as well in the international domain. This policy is always directed at strengthening Socialism and solidification of Freedom worldwide. GDR in the 30th Year after the Liberation from Hitler’s Fascism. ADN-ZB/German Democratic Republic (Back) [1973, July 30/31. BB.] | |
| 1973 | 
1973, July 30/31 – Crimea, Soviet UkraineMeeting of Friends in Crimea. Top leaders of the Communist countries and members of the Warsaw Pact: Todor Zhivkov, Prime Minister and President of Bulgaria (1962-71, 71-89), Nicolae Ceausescu, President of Romania (1974-89), Edward Gierek, first secretary of Poland’s Communist Party (1970-80). ADN-ZB/German Democratic Republic (Front) [1973, July 30/31. CA.] 
1973, July 30/31 – Crimea, Soviet UkraineMeeting of Friends in Crimea. Top leaders of the Communist countries and members of the Warsaw Pact. Leonid Brezhnev, Todor Zhivkov, Prime Minister and President of Bulgaria (1962-71, 71-89), Janos Kadar, Hungarian Premier (1956-8) and first secretary of the Communist Party (1956-88) and Alexey Nikolayevich Kosygin, Soviet Premier (1964-80). ADN-ZB/German Democratic Republic (Front) [1973, July 30/31. CB.] | |
| 1973 | 
1973, October 21 – Chicago, IllinoisAmerican Ukrainian’s demonstration marking the 40th anniversary of the Soviet Russia made famine and continuous oppression of Ukrainian people. Photo by Mayo (Front) [1973, October 21. DA.] 
1973, October 21 – Chicago, Illinois40th anniversary of Ukrainian people. Held parade which ended at the National Guard Armory at Kedzie & North Avenue. Photo by Mayo (Back) [1973, October 21. DB.] | |
| 1973 | 
1973, October 21 – Chicago, IllinoisAmerican Ukrainian’s convention at the National Guard Armory, following the demonstration marking the 40th anniversary of the Soviet Russia made famine and continuous oppression of Ukrainian people. Photo by Mayo (Front) [1973, October 21. EA.] 
1973, October 21 – Chicago, Illinois40th Anniversary of Ukrainian People. Hold parade which ended at the National Guard Armory at Kedzie & North Avenue. Photo by Mayo (Back) [1973, October 21. EB.] | |
| 1974 | 
1974, January 4 – Zhytomyr, Soviet UkraineCONGREGATION PLEADS FRO ITS CHURCH – A Russian Orthodox congregation in Zhytomir, Ukraine has appealed directly to Kremlin to save its church in an open letter to Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other officials. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1974, January 4. AA.] 
1974, January 4 – Zhytomyr, Soviet UkraineCONGREGATION PLEADS FRO ITS CHURCH – A Russian Orthodox congregation in Zhytomir, western Ukraine, has appealed directly to the Kremlin to save its church, The Church of the Epiphany, above. In an open letter to Communist Party Chief Leonid I Brezhnev and other officials, 30 members of the congregation wrote: “Modern youth have movies, theaters and dances… but we old people have only one place of rest..” The letter reached western journalists in Moscow Friday. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1974, January 4. AB.] | |
| 1974 | 
1974, May 28 – Washington, District of ColumbiaTOUR OF THE GARDEN. U.S. President Nixon and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian Republic A. P. Lyashko (right) at the White House Rose Garden. Lyashko and seven other Soviet Governors came to the U.S. for the National Governors Conference. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1974, May 28. BA.] 
1974, May 28 – Washington, District of ColumbiaTOUR OF THE GARDEN. President Nixon points out a view of the White House Rose Garden Tuesday to A. P. Lyashko, right, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR. Lyashko and seven other Soviet governors are in the United States at the invitation of the National Governors Conference. Man in center is unidentified. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1974, May 28. BB.] | |
| 1974 | 
1974, November 23 – Vladivostok, Soviet UnionU.SPresident Ford and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev during the summit, where they discussed nuclear arms limitations. This summit set the basic framework for the SALT II agreement. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1974, November 23. CA.] 
1974, November 23 – Vladivostok, Soviet UnionU.SPresident Ford and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev during the summit, where they discussed nuclear arms limitations. This summit set the basic framework for the SALT II agreement. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1974, November 23. CB.] | |
| 1975 | 
1975, July 30 – Helsinki, FinlandSoviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev chatted with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, when he came to the American embassy to meet U.S. President Ford. This was during the 35-nation summit, where British Prime Minister Wilson directly challenged “Brezhnev doctrine” and Helsinki Final Act was signed. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1975, July 30. AA.] 
1975, July 30 – Helsinki, FinlandSoviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev chatted with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, when he came to the American embassy to meet U.S. President Ford. This was during the 35-nation summit, where British Prime Minister Wilson directly challenged “Brezhnev doctrine” and Helsinki Final Act was signed. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1975, July 30. AB.] | |
| 1975 | 
1975, September 4 – Washington, District of ColumbiaAgriculture Earl L. Butz, testifying before the Senate Agriculture Committee. UPI Photo (Back) [1975, September 4. BA.] 
1975, September 4 – Washington, District of ColumbiaAgriculture Earl L. Butz, in testimony before the Senate Agriculture Committee 9/4, launched a strong defense on recent U.S. grain sales to the Soviet Union, and said more sales would be in the national interest. UPI Photo (Back) [1975, September 4. BB.] | |
| 1975 | 
1975, November 10 – Washington, District of ColumbiaWARNS RUSSIA – Secretary of State Kissinger told there can be no summit between President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev until the Kremlin can come up with a solid proposal on limiting nuclear weapons. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1975, November 10. CA.] 
1975, November 10 – Washington, District of ColumbiaWARNS RUSSIA – Secretary of State Kissinger told the Soviet Union Monday there can be no summit between President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev until the Kremlin can come up with a solid proposal on limiting nuclear weapons. Kissinger said the negotiations are in “stagnation” since the Soviet rejection last September of the latest American proposal. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1975, November 10. CB.] | |
| 1976 | 
1976, May 3 – Seattle, WashingtonUkrainian and Jewish and their supporters’ rally against the imprisonment of two Soviet political dissidents: Vyacheslav Chornovil, a Ukrainian journalist, and Boris Penson, a Jewish artist. (Front) [1976, May 3. AA.] 
1976, May 3 – Seattle, Washingtonmore than 100 demonstrators staged a rally yesterday at the Seattle Center mural-amphitheater to protest the imprisonment of two Soviet political dissidents: Vyacheslav Chornovil and Boris Penson. Chornovil is a Ukrainian journalist and Penson is a Jewish artist. The rally was sponsored by the Seatlle Citizens for Defense of Human Rights in the Soviet Union. The demonstrators were Ukrainians and Jews and their supporters. (Back) [1976, May 3. AB.] | |
| 1977 | 
1977, April 11 – Boston, MassachusettsTRAWLER AT PIER. – Soviet trawler Taras Shevchenko prepares to be turned and docked at the U.S. Coast Guard in Boston. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1977, April 11. AA.] 
1977, April 11 – Boston, MassachusettsTRAWLER AT PIER. – The Soviet fishing trawler Taras Shevchenko prepares to be turned and docked at the U.S. Coast Guard in Boston Monday. The trawler is the first foreign ship seized in violation of the new U.S 200-mile fishing limit. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sherman is docked in the foreground. AP Wirephoto [1977, April 11. AB.] | |
| 1977 | 
1977, April 15 – Boston, MassachusettsENROUTE ARRAIGNMENT. – Captain Aleksandr Gupalov is escorted from the Soviet fishing vessel Taras Shevchenko enroute to his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Boston. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1977, April 15. BA.] 
1977, April 15 – Boston, MassachusettsENROUTE ARRAIGNMENT. – Captain Aleksandr Gupalov, right foreground, is escorted from the Soviet fishing vessel Taras Shevchenko Friday, enroute to his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Boston. The Justice Department charged the captain with violating the 200-mile limit and sought the forfeiture of his vessel. AP Wirephoto [1977, April 15. BB.] | |
| 1977 | 
1977, April 29 – Boston, MassachusettsFISH RETURNED TO SOVIET TRAWLER. – A crane is used to load boxes of fish back onto the Soviet trawler Taras Shevchenko in Boston Friday. AP Wirephoto (Front) [1977, April 29. CA.] 
1977, April 29 – Boston, MassachusettsFISH RETURNED TO SOVIET TRAWLER. – A crane is used to load boxes of fish back onto the Soviet trawler Taras Shevchenko in Boston Friday. It is the portion of the ship’s catch considered by the U.S. government to have been caught legally within the U.S. 200-mile limit. The vessel was seized April 10 for alleged violation of the limit. AP Wirephoto (Back) [1977, April 29. CB.] | |
| 1980-1989 | ||
| 1980 | 
1980, June 19 – New York, New YorkRepublican presidential aspirant Ronald Reagan at a reception sponsored by the Ukrainian National Association in New York. UPI Photo by Mark Vodofsky (Front) [1980, June 19. AA.] 
1980, June 19 – New York, New YorkRepublican presidential aspirant Ronald Reagan is shown in this close-up view June 19 as he attended a reception sponsored by the Ukrainian National Association in New York. Reagan was presented with traditional gifts of bread, salt and honey. UPI Photo by Mark Vodofsky (Back) [1980, June 19. AB.] | |
| 1982 | 
1982, January 11The Great Propaganda War Between the United States and the Soviet Union. U.S. News and World Report magazine front cover [1982, January 11. AA.] 
1982, January 11The Great Propaganda War Between the United States and the Soviet Union. U.S. News and World Report magazine article [1982, January 11. AB.] | |
| 1982 | 
1982, October 29 – Detroit, MichiganReva Gruich, 82, a native of Ukraine living the U.S. for 60 years, is among the demonstrators supporting nuclear weapons freeze. Free Press Photo by David C. Turnley (Front) [1982, October 29. BA.] 
1982, October 29 – Detroit, MichiganReva Gruich, 82, originally from Ukraine and who has been here for 60 years protests for the Nuclear Freeze at noon today in Kennedy Square during a demonstration for the Nuklear Freeze proposal on the November 2 ballot. Free Press Photo by David C. Turnley (Back) [1982, October 29. BB.] | |
| 1982 | 
1982, November 11 – Helsinki, FinlandBREZHNEV AND FORD – Brezhnev died Wednesday, the news agency Tass reported Thursday. AP Laserphoto (Front) [1982, November 11. CA.] 
1982, November 11 – Helsinki, FinlandBREZHNEV AND FORD – Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, left, and U.S. President Gerald Ford talk during a meeting in Helsinki, August 1975, during discussions on the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty. Brezhnev died Wednesday, the news agency Tass reported Thursday. AP Laserphoto (Back) [1982, November 11. CB.] | |
| 1983 | 
1983, June 12 – Detroit, MichiganTOM KAROS HOLDING SIGN IN KENNEDY SQUARE. Ukrainian Famine Toll Remembered. Free Press Photo (Front) [1983, June 12. DA.] 
1983, June 12 – Detroit, MichiganTOM KAROS HOLDING SIGN IN KENNEDY SQUARE. More than 1,000 people filed into Kennedy Square on Sunday to mourn the 50th anniversary of a genocidal famine that some say caused the death of seven million Ukrainians. Free Press Photo (Back) [1983, June 12. DB.] | |
| 1983 | 
1983, November 6 – Houston, TexasDozens of anti-Soviet protesters stage a rally outside Houston City Hall. Houston Post Photo by Craig Hartley (Front) [1983, November 6. EA.] 
1983, November 6 – Houston, TexasCrowd in front of the City Hall today at 2:45 anti-Rusky types of many nationalists. Texas Coalition for Freedom. Dozens of anti-Soviet protesters stage a rally outside Houston City Hall Sunday afternoon. The rally was staged to coincide with the 66th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Houston Post Photo by Craig Hartley (Back) [1983, November 6. EB.] | |
| 1984 | 
1984, October 11 – Warren, MichiganCrowd outside of the Ukrainian Cultural Center applaud Reagan. Photograph by William Archie (Front) [1984, October 11. AA.] 
1984, October 11 – Warren, MichiganCrowd outside of the Ukrainian Cultural Center cheering Reagan. At the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Warren, above, people applaud Reagan. At right, a sign at the center proclaims the area, “Reagan Country.” Photograph by William Archie (Back) [1984, October 11. AB.] | |
| 1985 | 
1985, January 9 – Washington, District of ColumbiaON ARMS TALKS – President Reagan said the United States will be “flexible, patient and determined” in upcoming arms negotiations with the Soviet Union. AP Laserphoto (Front) [1985, January 9. AA.] 
1985, January 9 – Washington, District of ColumbiaON ARMS TALKS – President Reagan gestures at the opening of a White House news conference Wednesday night in the East Room. Reagan said the United States will be “flexible, patient and determined” in upcoming arms negotiations with the Soviet Union. AP Laserphoto (Back) [1985, January 9. AB.] | |
| 1985 | 
1985, November 20 – Geneva, SwitzerlandDURING THE PRIVATE TALKS. On November 20, 1985, the negotiations of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, M.S. Gorbachev with the President of the USA, R. Reagan continued at the Soviet embassy in Geneva. Photo by Yu. Abramochkin, “News” Press Agency (Front) [1985, November 20. DA.] 
1985, November 20 – Geneva, SwitzerlandDURING THE PRIVATE TALKS. On November 20, 1985, the negotiations of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, M.S. Gorbachev with the President of the USA, R. Reagan continued at the Soviet embassy in Geneva. Photo by Yu. Abramochkin, “News” Press Agency (Back)The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was held on November 19 and 20, 1985, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race. (Wikipedia) [1985, November 20. DB.] | |
| 1986 | 
1986, February 27 – Moscow, Soviet Russia27th CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) Congress. OPS: Presidium of the Congress during the allegation of the Mandate Commission Report. TASS (Front) [1986, February 27. AA.] 
1986, February 27 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaToday at the 27th CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) Congress the Report of the Mandate Commission was made by its Chairman, G. Rasumovski. Delegates of the Congress adopted the Report unanimously. OPS: Presidium of the Congress during the allegation of the Mandate Commission Report. TASS (Back) [1986, February 27. AB.] | |
| 1986 | 
1986, April 30 – Chicago, IllinoisPayer Service for Friends and Relatives. A member of the Saints Volodymyr and Olha Parish, 2245 W. Superior St. prays for relatives in Ukraine affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Tribune photo by Michael Fryer (Front) [1986, April 30. BA.] 
1986, April 30 – Chicago, IllinoisPayer Service for Friends and Relatives. Parishioners of the Chicago Ukrainians catholic parish of Saints Volodymyr and Olha at 2245 W. Superior, pray for their relatives and friends back in Ukraine who are now in the list of Nuclear fall-out from reactors at Chernobyl, where melt-downs from the reactors in progress. Tribune photo by Michael Fryer (Back) [1986, April 30. BB.] | |
| 1986 | 
1986, May 9 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaNUKE FIRE OUT, EXPERTS SAY – Hans Blix, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks during a news conference in Moscow. AP LasePhoto (Front) [1986, May 9. CA.] 
1986, May 9 – Moscow, Soviet RussiaNUKE FIRE OUT, EXPERTS SAY – Hans Blix, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks during a news conference in Moscow Friday. Blix flew over the devasted Chernobyl nuclear reactor Thursday and reported on Soviet television that smoke was still rising from the plant. But another IAEA official reported Friday that the fire at the plant has been put out. AP LasePhoto (Back) [1986, May 9. CB.] | |
| 1986 | 
1986, December – Chernobyl, Soviet UkraineBlack and somber, the sarcophagus sealing Chernobyl’s reactor 4 symbolizes the nightmare of radiation. the tomb must safely contain its dangerous bones for hundreds of years before nuclear decay quits its radioactive core. The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda recently reported that dangerous radioactive contamination from the 1986 disaster continues in a vast area of nearly 250,000 people posing acute problems and a still-tense situation. National Geographic Society Photo by Steve Raymer [1986, December. DA.] 
1986, December – Kyiv, Soviet UkraineA radiation checkpoint outside Kyiv still operates eight months after the April 1986 disaster at the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A civil defence worker uses a Giger counter to test incoming cars. Those with excessive radiation were washed before entering Ukrainian capital. Although fallout in Kyiv never posed immediate danger, most of the city’s children were sent to camps for the summer, and Kyivans were advised to shower frequently. National Geographic Society Photo by Steve Raymer [1986, December. DB.] | |
| 1987 | 
1987, April – Denver, Colorado(Left to Right) Paul Babiak, Vladimir Sytnyczenko, and Abraham Miller during the ceremonies of the first anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Denver Post photo by John Leyba (Front) [1987, April. AA.] 
1987, April – Denver, Colorado(Left to Right) Paul Babiak, Vladimir Sytnyczenko, and Abraham Miller during the ceremonies of the first anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Denver Post photo by John Leyba (Back) [1987, April. AB.] | |
| 1988 | 
1988, December 7 – New York, New YorkON THE MARK- The Governor’s Island Summit. The last official meeting between President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev during the Soviet leader’s trip to deliver his now-famous United Nations speech announcing unilateral arms cuts and – to many observers – the ideological end of the Cold War. Adding particular interest to this abbreviated summit was the participation of then-President-elect George H.W. Bush, who was at that moment constructing a national security team of aides who were distinctly more skeptical of Gorbachev’s motives than President Reagan or his top officials were. AP LaserPhoto by Boris Yurchenko (Front) [1988, December 7. AA.] 
1988, December 7 – New York, New YorkON THE MARK- Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, President Ronald Reagan and President-elect George Bush look for their marks on the viewing stand overlooking New York harbor from Governor’s Island Wednesday. The marks were placed by White House advance personnel to indicate where the leaders should stand for the best picture situation. AP LaserPhoto by Boris Yurchenko [1988, December 7. AB.] | |
| 1990-1999 | ||
| 1990 | 
1990, June 11 – US News & World Report MagazineFALLING STAR – Front cover on Bush-Gorbachev Summit and growing danger for Gorbachev in the U.S.S.R. [1990, June 11. AA.] 
1990, June 11 – US News & World Report MagazineArticle on Bush-Gorbachev Summit in Washington, District of Columbia [1990, June 11. AB.] | |
| 1990 | 
1990, July 16DECLARATION OF STATE SOVEREIGNTY OF UKRAINE. Cover with the Signatures of the People’s Representatives, who adopted the Declaration. On July 16, 1990, Verkhovna Rada (Supreme Council or Parliament) of the Ukrainian SSR adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine. While Ukraine was still a part of the Soviet Union at that time, this document was a crucial step forward on the Road to Independence for Ukraine. [1990, July 16. BA.] 
1990, July 16DECLARATION OF STATE SOVEREIGNTY OF UKRAINE. First page [1990, July 16. BB.] | |
| 1990 | 
1990, July 16 – Kyiv, UkrainePeoples’ Representatives from “Peoples’ Council” in front of Verkhovna Rada: Levko Gorokhivskyi, Oles Shevchenko, Levko Lukyanenko, Stepan Khmara, Mykhailo Goryn, Bogdan Rebryk, Iryna Kalynets, Vyacheslav Chornovil. Bogdan Goryn, Genrikh Altyunyan after the vote on the Declaration of the State Sovereignty of Ukraine. Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Photo [1990, July 16. CA.] 
1990, July 16 – Kyiv, UkraineRally in front of Verkhovna Rada during the vote on the Declaration of the State Sovereignty of Ukraine. Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Photo [1990, July 16. CB.] | |
| 1990 | 
1990, August 22 – Chicago, IllinoisStriking the Right Chord. With Michael Ostrowskyj playing the bandura, the official national instrument, Ukrainian Cultural Center students prepare to perform at National Security Bank, 1030 W. Chicago Avenue. Tribune photo by Frank Hannes (Front) [1990, August 22. DA.] 
1990, August 22 – Chicago, IllinoisYoungsters Present Ukrainian Songs. Students from the Ukrainian Cultural Center gave a performance at the National Security Bank at 1030 W. Chicago Avenue to salute the recently proclaimed Declaration of Sovereignty of Ukraine people. They sang folk and patriotic songs. Playing the Bandura: Michael Ostrowskyj. Tribune photo by Frank Hanes (Back) [1990, August 22. DB.] | |
| 1990 | 
1990, September 9 – Helsinki, FinlandGORBACHEV’S GIFT – The framed cartoon President Gorbachev presented to Mr. Bush. AP LaserPhoto (Front) [1990, September 9. EA.] 
1990, September 9 – Helsinki, FinlandGORBACHEV’S GIFT – This is a copy of the cartoon Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev presented to U.S. President George Bush Sunday in Helsinki. It shows Mr. World holding up the arms of Gorbachev and Bush after they made a knockout punch of the cold war. AP LaserPhoto (Back) [1990, September 9. EB.] | |
| 1990 | 
1990, September 12 – Berlin, GermanyTORN DOWN WALLAPLaserPhoto (Front) [1990, September 12. FA.] 
1990, September 12 – Berlin , GermanyTORN DOWN WALLFormer President Ronald Reagan is shown in June 1987 making his “tear down the wall” speech at the Berlin Wall. Reagan called on the Soviets to tear down the wall and few thought it would happen. On Wednesday, Reagan took symbolic swings with hammer and chisel at the skeletal remains of the Cold War, in Berlin. APLaserPhoto (Back) [1990, September 12. FB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, June 5 – Washinton, District of ColumbiaNEW AMBASSADOR – President Bush and Democrat Bob Strauss address members of the media outside the White House. AP LaserPhoto by Doug Mills (Front) [1991, June 5. AA.] 
1991, June 5 – Washinton, District of ColumbiaNEW AMBASSADOR – President Bush and Democrat Bob Strauss address members of the media outside the White House Tuesday following Bush’s announcement that he has named Strauss to be the new ambassador to the Soviet Union. Bush called Strauss “the right man to represent the United States in this fantastic period of change in the Soviet Union.” AP LaserPhoto by Doug Mills (Back) [1991, June 5. AB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, July 16 – Kyiv, UkraineWomen dressed in the national attire celebrating the first anniversary of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine in the Square of the October Revolution (now Independence Square). [1991, July 16. BA.] 
1991, July 16 – Kyiv, UkraineCelebration and concert dedicated to the first anniversary of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine in Square of the October Revolution (now Independence Square). [1991, July 16. BB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, August 24 – TIME MagazineSELF-DECLARED UKRAINE NATION SHOWS ITS FLAG. Ukrainian Parliament Representatives bring Ukrainian Flag into Verkhovna Rada. TIME Magazine of September 9, 1991, Photo by Efrem Lukatskyi [1991, August 24. CA.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, August 1 – Kyiv, UkraineINDEPENDENCE DEMONSTRATION. Supporters of the RUKH Popular Movement for Ukraine’s independence, awaiting the arrival of U.S. President George Bush, demonstrate outside the Supreme Soviet Building in Kyiv Thursday. AP LaserPhoto by Jefren Lukatsky (Front) [1991, August 1. CA.] 
1991, August 1 – Kyiv, UkraineINDEPENDENCE DEMONSTRATION. Supporters of the RUKH Popular Movement for Ukraine’s independence, awaiting the arrival of U.S. President George Bush, demonstrate outside the Supreme Soviet Building in Kyiv Thursday. The U.S. President will address the Ukrainian session during his visit. AP LaserPhoto by Jefren Lukatsky (Back) [1991, August 1. CB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, August 1 – Kyiv, UkrainePRO-INDEPENDENCE DEMONSTRATIONS during President Bush’s visit. AP LaserPhoto by Alexander Zemliankhenko (Front) [1991, August 1. DA.] 
1991, August 1 – Kyiv, UkrainePRO-INDEPENDENCE DEMONSTRATIONS – Ukrainians supporting the Popular Movement in Ukraine, an independence movement, demonstrate in Kyiv Thursday during President Bush’s visit. The demonstrators are against the new Union treaty proposed by Soviet President Gorbachev. AP LaserPhoto by Alexander Zemliankhenko [1991, August 1. DB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, August 3 – Kyiv, UkraineWAITING FOR BUSHUkrainians line a street in front of the parliament building in Kyiv as they wait for President George Bush’s motorcade. AP LaserPhoto (Front) [1991, August 3. EA.] 
1991, August 3 – Kyiv, UkraineWAITING FOR BUSHUkrainians line a street in front of the parliament building in Kyiv as they wait for President George Bush’s motorcade to drive by Thurdsay while a line of policemen form a cordon along the street. Bush is in Kyiv on the last of his three-day visit to the Soviet Union. AP LaserPhoto (Back) [1991, August 3. EB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, August 24 – Kyiv, UkraineDECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF UKRAINE. Translation from Ukrainian into English: VERKHOVNA RADA OF UKRAINE. RESOLUTION on the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. The Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic resolves that: Ukraine shall be declared an independent democratic state on August 24, 1991. Upon declaration of its independence, only its Constitution, laws, orders of the Government, and other legislative acts of the republic are valid on the territory of Ukraine. A republican referendum shall be organized on December 1, 1991 to confirm the act of declaration of independence. Signed by: Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR Leonid Kravchuk. Kyiv, August 24, 1991 = #1427-XII [1991, August 24. FA.] 
1991, August 24 – Kyiv, UkraineACT OF DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF UKRAINE. Translation from Ukrainian into English: Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. In view of the mortal danger surrounding Ukraine in connection with the state coup in the USSR on August 19, 1991, – continuing the thousand-year tradition of state development in Ukraine, – proceeding from the right of a nation to self-determination in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and other international legal documents, – implementing the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic solemnly DECLARES INDEPENDENCE OF UKRAINE and creation of the independent Ukrainian state – UKRAINE. The territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable. From this day forward, the Constitution and laws of Ukraine only are valid on the territory of Ukraine. This act comes into force upon its approval. Signed by: Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR Leonid Kravchuk. VERKHOVNA RADA OF UKRAINE. August 24, 1991 [1991, August 24. FB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, August 24 – Kyiv, UkrainePeople’s Representatives in Verkhovna Rada, including Vyacheslav Chornovil, Ivan Zayets, Dmytro Pavlychko and Les Tanyuk during the extraordinary session, when the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine was adopted. Photo by Oleksandr Klymenko [1991, August 24. GA.] 
1991, August 24 – Kyiv, UkraineUkrainian Flag is brought into the building of Verkhovna Rada. Photo by Yefrem Latskyi [1991, August 24. GB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, August 24 – TIME MagazineSELF-DECLARED UKRAINE NATION SHOWS ITS FLAG. Ukrainian Parliament Representatives bring Ukrainian Flag into Verkhovna Rada. TIME Magazine of September 9, 1991, Photo by Efrem Lukatskyi [1991, August 24. HA.] 
1991, August 24 – Kyiv, UkraineVyacheslav Chornovil, Ivan Zayets and Oleksandr Hudyma hold the Ukrainian Flag in front, while bringing it in to Verkhovna Rada. Photo by Yefrem Lukatsky [1991, August 24. HB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, August 24 – Kyiv, UkraineUkrainian dissident Levko Lukyanenko, one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, was lifted in the air in front of Verkhovna Rada after proclaiming of Independence. UNIAN Photo [1991, August 24. IA.] 
1991, August 24 – Kyiv, UkraineDraft of the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. Archives of Levko Lukyanenko. Photo credit: Mustafa Nayem [1991, August 24. IB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, August 24 – Kyiv, UkraineRally in front of Verkhovna Rada, during the extraordinary sessions, when the Declaration of Independence was adopted. Photo by UKRINFORM [1991, August 24. JA.] 
1991, August 24 – Kyiv, UkraineHow They Greeted Independence. Rally in front of Verkhovna Rada. UNIAN Photo [1991, August 24. JB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, August 24 – Kyiv, UkraineUkrainian Patriots welcoming Declaration of Independence in the Square of Independence. Photo by Anatoly Sapronyenkov [1991, August 24. KA.] 
1991, August 24 – Kyiv, UkraineRaising of the National Flag in Khreshchatyk Street in front of the Kyiv City Council [1991, August 24. KB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, August 24 – Kyiv, UkraineProtesters gather at the Square of the October Revolution (now Independence Square) to support Ukraine’s independence in Kyiv on Aug.24, 1991. The sign says “Ukraine leaves the USSR.” UNIAN Photo [1991, August 24. LA.] 
1991, August 24 – Kyiv, UkraineUKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE. – Ukrainians in the capital Kyiv Sunday raise the three-fingered national symbol at a rally to welcome the Ukraine Supreme Soviet’s declaration of Independence from Moscow Saturday. Placard at the right reads “Ukraine leaves USSR”. AP Photo by Efrem Lukatsky [1991, August 24. LB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, August 26 – Kyiv, Ukraine“Hangman”Disassembling of the Lenin monument in the Square of the October Revolution (now Independence Square). UKRINFORM Photo [1991, August 26. MA.] 
1991, August 26 – Kyiv, Ukraine“Hangman”Disassembling of the Lenin monument in the Square of the October Revolution (now Independence Square). The white writing with the arrow pointing at Lenin says “Hangman” in Ukrainian. AFP Photo [1991, August 26. MB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, August 28 – Kyiv, UkraineThousands of pro-independence demonstrators rally in central Kyiv 28 August flashing the trident sign, emblem of Ukraine. AFP Photo by Anatoly Sapronyenkov (Front) [1991, August 28. NA.] ![1991, August 28. NB. Kyiv, Ukraine. Thousands of pro-independence demonstrators rally in central Kyiv 28 August flashing a three-finger sign, to indicate the fork ["trident" in fact], emblem of Ukraine. Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union late last week following the failed coup in Moscow. AFP Photo by Anatoly Sapronyenkov (Back)](https://usubc.org/uploads/gallery/39/1491.jpg)
1991, August 28 – Kyiv, UkraineThousands of pro-independence demonstrators rally in central Kyiv 28 August flashing a three-finger sign, to indicate the fork [“trident” in fact], emblem of Ukraine. Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union late last week following the failed coup in Moscow. AFP Photo by Anatoly Sapronyenkov (Back) [1991, August 28. NB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, September 15 – Kyiv, UkrainePro-independence demonstrators make their feelings known with an english-language banner in Kyiv’s Liberty Square in front of Lenin’s statue 15 September during a rally attended by several thousands. Ukraine is to confirm its independence during a referendum in December 91. AFP Photo by Sergei Supinsky [1991, September 15. OA.] 
1991, September 15 – Kyiv, UkraineAll-Ukrainian People’s Rally in support of the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine on September 15, 1991. UKRINFORM Photo [1991, September 15. OB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, December 30 – Minsk, BelarusYELTSIN AND KRAVCHUK. AP LaserPhoto (Front) [1991, December 30. PA.] 
1991, December 30 – Minsk, BelarusYELTSIN AND KRAVCHUK. – Russian President Boris Yeltsin, left, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk during a brak in their discussions with leaders of the newly formed commonwealth of eleven former Soviet republics Monday in Minsk. AP LaserPhoto [1991, December 30. PB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, September 9 – Newsweek MagazineCRACKUP – Newsweek magazine front cover on the Independence rallies in Ukraine and the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. [1991, September 9. QA.] 
1991, September 9 – Newsweek MagazineEND OF AN EMPIRE. Special Report on the dissolution process of the U.S.S.R. [1991, September 9. QB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, September 9 – US News and World Report MagazineTHE END OF EMPIRE. U.S. News and World Report magazine front cover on the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. [1991, September 9. RA.] 
1991, September 9 – US News and World Report MagazineSOVIET DISUNION. Special report on the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. [1991, September 9. RB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, December 6 – Kyiv, UkraineTAKING OATHNewly elected President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk takes the oath during his inauguration Thursday in Ukraine. AP LaserPhoto (Front) [1991, December 6. SA.] 
1991, December 6 – Kyiv, UkraineTAKING OATHNewly elected President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk takes the oath during his inauguration Thursday in Ukraine. Kravchuk sought to reassure those concerned about the nuclear weapons on its soil by pledging Ukraine will be peaceful and democratic. AP LaserPhoto (Back) [1991, December 6. SB.] | |
| 1991 | 
1991, December 18 – Kyiv, UkraineBAKER AND KRAVCHUKAP LaserPhoto (Front) [1991, December 18. TA.] 
1991, December 18 – Kyiv, UkraineBAKER AND KRAVCHUKU.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk, left, talk to reporters Wednesday at the presidential palace in Kyiv. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, bowing to harsh political reality, urged the national Supreme Soviet legislature to hold a final session to transfer power to Boris Yeltsin’s new commonwealth, a report said. AP LaserPhoto (Back) [1991, December 18. TB.] | |
| 1992 | 
1992, April 9 – Milwaukee, WisconsinOne of two 36-foot-long vans equipped for medical and dental care is loaded onto Antonov-124 “Ruslan” cargo plane, built in Ukraine, at Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee. Photo by Ronald M. Overdahl (Front) [1992, April 9. AA.] 
1992, April 9 – Milwaukee, WisconsinOne of two 36-foot-long vans equipped for medical and dental care is loaded onto a Soviet-built Antonov-124 cargo plane Wednesday at Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee. Personnel from the US and Ukraine will staff the vans, sponsored by Thoughts of Faith of Stoughton. Photo by Ronald M. Overdahl (Back) [1992, April 9. AB.] | |
| 1992 | 
1992, May 6 – Washington, District of ColumbiaOVAL OFFICE MEETING. President Bush gestures while meeting with Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk in the Oval Office of the White House Wednesday. AP Photo (Front) [1992, May 6. BA.] 
1992, May 6 – Washington, District of ColumbiaOVAL OFFICE MEETING. President Bush gestures while meeting with Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk in the Oval Office of the White House Wednesday. Bush Administration officials are optimistic the Ukrainian president will ease nuclear tensions between his new nation and Russia. AP Photo (Back) [1992, May 6. BB.] | |
| 1992 | 
1992, June 16 – Washington, District of ColumbiaPOSTCARD FOR HOME – Russian President Boris Yeltsin with President and Mrs. Bush at the White House. AP Photo by Dennis Cook (Front) [1992, June 16. CA.] 
1992, June 16 – Washington, District of ColumbiaPOSTCARD FOR HOME – Russian President Boris Yeltsin poses with President and Mrs. Bush and their dogs Ranger and Mille at the White House Tuesday. The two presidents took a break from their meeting to tour the White House grounds and play some horseshoes. AP Photo by Dennis Cook (Back) [1992, June 16. CB.] | |
| 1992 | 
1992, May 10 – Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaMAN OF LETTERS – Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk at the commencement ceremonies at La Salle University. AP Photo (Front) [1992, May 10. DA.] 
1992, May 10 – Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaMAN OF LETTERS – Prior to the commencement ceremonies at La Salle University in Philadelphia Sunday, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, right, shares a light moment with La Salle University professor Leo D. Rudnytzky. President Kravchuk was awarded an honorary degree from the university. AP Photo [1992, May 10. DB.] | |
| 1992 | 
1992, October 13 – Kyiv, UkraineNEW UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER. Leonid Kuchma, newly-elected prime minister of Ukraine, is shown in an undated file photo. AP Photo (Front) [1992, October 13. EA.] 
1992, October 13 – Kyiv, UkraineNEW UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER. Leonid Kuchma, newly-elected prime minister of Ukraine, is shown in an undated file photo. Kuchma, the long-time head of the world’s biggest missile plant, was overwhelmingly approved by the Ukrainian Parliament in a vote Tuesday. Kucha’s predecessor, Leonid Kravchuk, resigned October 2 after being accused of stalling on economic reforms. AP Photo (Back) [1992, October 13. EB.] | |
| 1994 | 
1994, January 12 – Kyiv, UkraineUkrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, left, extends his hand in greeting to U.S. President Bill Clinton upon his arrival at Kyiv Airport. AP Photo by Efrem Lukatsky (Front) [1994, January 12. AA.] 
1994, January 12 – Kyiv, UkraineUkrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, left, extends his hand in greeting to U.S. President Bill Clinton upon his arrival at Kyiv Airport Wednesday January 12, 1994. Clinton made a brief stopover in Ukraine on his way to the summit meeting with Boris Yeltsin in Moscow. AP Photo by Efrem Lukatsky (Back) [1994, January 12. AB.] | |
| 1994 | 
1994, January 13 – Kyiv, UkrainePresident Clinton listens as Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, right, answers questions at a joint news conference at Kyiv’s airport Wednesday January 12, 1994. AP Photo (Back) [1994, January 13. BA.] 
1994, January 13 – Kyiv, UkrainePresident Clinton listens as Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, right, answers questions at a joint news conference at Kyiv’s airport Wednesday January 12, 1994. The U.S. President made a stopover here before going on to Moscow for his upcoming three-day summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. AP Photo (Back) [1994, January 13. BB.] | |
| 1994 | 
1994, January 13 – Moscow, RussiaRussian President Boris Yeltsin (center), Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk (right) and U.S. President Bill Clinton (left). REUTERS Photo by Rick Wilking (Front) [1994, January 13. CA.] 
1994, January 13 – Moscow, RussiaRussian President Boris Yeltsin (center) gestures to Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk (right) and U.S. President Bill Clinton (left) after the three leaders signed documents in January, confirming Ukraine’s non-nuclear status and setting out mechanisms for transferring its weapons to Russia for destruction. REUTERS Photo by Rick Wilking (Back) [1994, January 13. CB.] | |
| 1994 | 
1994, November 22 – Washington, District of ColumbiaPresident and Mrs. Clinton escort Ukraine President and Mrs. Kuchma to a State Dinner at the White House Tuesday, November 22, 1994. AP Photo (Front) [1994, November 22. DA.] 
1994, November 22 – Washington, District of ColumbiaPresident and Mrs. Clinton escort Ukraine President and Mrs. Kuchma to a State Dinner at the White House Tuesday, November 22, 1994. Earlier, the two presidents signed agreements laying out areas for future cooperation and focusing on joint space ventures. AP Photo (Back) [1994, November 22. DB.] | |
| 1995 | 
1995, May 11 – Kyiv, UkraineUkrainian President Leonid Kuchma gives his address as U.S. President Bill Clinton listens after Clinton’s arrival at Kyiv’s Mariyinskyy palace Thursday, May 11, 1995. AP Photo (Back) [1995, May 11. AA.] 
1995, May 11 – Kyiv, UkraineUkrainian President Leonid Kuchma gives his address as U.S. President Bill Clinton listens after Clinton’s arrival at Kyiv’s Mariyinskyy palace Thursday, May 11, 1995. President Kuchma pledged Ukraine was ready to cooperate with the United States and the entire world in the pursuit of peace. AP Photo (Back) [1995, May 11. AB.] | |
| 1995 | 
1995, August 20 – Lehighton, PennsylvaniaLEHIGHTON LOCAL: 3rd Annual Ukrainian Festival in Carbon County. Wasil Luziv (man) and Liubov Horobets (woman) performing a Ukrainian folk dance. Photo by: Walt Roland. AP Leafdesk (Front) [1995, August 20. BA.] 
1995, August 20 – Lehighton, PennsylvaniaUKRAINIANS CELEBRATE FREEDOM by Walt Roland (Back) [1995, August 20. BB.] | |
| 1995 | 
1995, May 12 – Kyiv, UkrainePresident Bill Clinton, center left, and President Leonid Kuchma, left, approach the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. AP Photo by Scott Applewhite (Front) [1995, May 12. CA.] 
1995, May 12 – Kyiv, UkrainePresident Bill Clinton, center left, and President Leonid Kuchma, left, approach the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Kyiv Friday 12, 1995. Mr. Clinton was due to address Ukrainian people later in the day and to visit other memorial sites before departing for home. AP Photo by Scott Applewhite (Back) [1995, May 12. CB.] | |
| 1995 | 
1995, May 12 – Kyiv, UkraineCIS-UKRAINE-SUMMIT – Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma (right) and U.S. President Clinton (center) take part in the wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Kyiv on May 12. Clinton came to Kyiv for a two-day visit and yesterday signed several agreements with Kuchma on cooperation between two states. REUTERS Photo by Jim Bourg (Front) [1995, May 12. DA.] 
1995, May 12 – Kyiv, UkraineCIS-UKRAINE-SUMMIT – Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma (right) and U.S. President Clinton (center). REUTERS Photo by Jim Bourg (Back) [1995, May 12. DB.] | |
| 1995 | 
1995, May 12 – Kyiv, UkraineCLINTONS HOLDING HANDS at Kyiv’s Shevchenko University May 12. REUTERS Photo (Front) [1995, May 12. EA.] 
1995, May 12 – Kyiv, UkraineCLINTONS HOLDING HANDSFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton holds the hand of President Clinton prior to a speech he delivered at Kyiv’s Shevchenko University May 12. Clinton told tens of thousands of Ukrainians their decision to give up neclear weapons had helped preserve world peace. REUTERS Photo (Back) [1995, May 12. EB.] | |
| 1995 | 
1995, June 5 – Seattle, WashingtonLENIN STATUE in a neighborhood of Seattle. AP Photo by Robert Sorbo (Front) [1995, June 5. FA.] 
1995, June 5 – Seattle, WashingtonLENIN STATUETerry Fox and his niece Diane Fox-Hindley, 3, visit newly installed bronse statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin Monday, June 5, 1995, in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. The 18-foot-high, seven-ton Lenin, which is for sale, was imported from Slovakia in 1993. AP Photo by Robert Sorbo (Back) [1995, June 5. FB.] | |
| 1996 | 
1996, October 25 – Moscow, RussiaUkraine President at the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Conference. Photo by Pool Slug. AP Leafdesk (Front) [1996, October 25. AA.] 
1996, October 25 – Moscow, RussiaUkraine President Leonid Kuchma attends the opening of the third meeting of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Conference Friday October 25, 1996 in Moscow. Russia holds the rotating presidency of the conference, which will pass to Turkey next month. the emphasis of the summit is on economy. Photo by Pool Slug. AP Leafdesk (Back) [1996, October 25. AB.] | |
| 1997 | 
1997, May 1997 – Kyiv, UkrainePolish President Aleksandr Kwasniewski, left, is escorted by his host, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, while reviewing honor guards prior to their talks at Mariyinsky Palace, the presidential residence, in Kyiv, Tuesday, May 20, 1997. AP Photo by Efrem Lukatsky (Back) [1997, May 1997. AA.] 
1997, May 1997 – Kyiv, UkrainePolish President Aleksandr Kwasniewski, left, is escorted by his host, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, while reviewing honor guards prior to their talks at Mariyinsky Palace, the presidential residence, in Kyiv, Tuesday, May 20, 1997. Kwasniewski launched a new effort Tuesday to put to rest more than half a century of bad blood between his country and Ukraine, exchanging medals and accolades with his Ukrainian counterpart. AP Photo by Efrem Lukatsky (Back) [1997, May 1997. AB.] | |
