Timeline of Kharkiv
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Prior to 20th century
- 1654 - Kharkiv founded by Cossacks.
- 1689 - Church of the Intercession (Kharkiv) built.[1]
- 1734 - Kharkiv Collegium founded.[2]
- 1764 - Church of the Holy Trinity built.[1]
- 1765 - Town becomes capital of Sloboda Ukraine province.[2]
- 1777 - Assumption Cathedral built.[1]
- 1797 - Town becomes part of the Kharkov Governorate.
- 1805 - Kharkiv University established.[2]
- 1817 - Population: 12,892.[3]
- 1820 - Building of Noble Assembly, Kharkiv constructed on Market Square, Kharkiv.
- 1835 - Town becomes capital of Kharkov Governorate.[2]
- 1867 - Population: 59,968.[4]
- 1868 - Railway begins operating.[2]
- 1878 - Student protest.[5]
- 1882
- 1885 - Technological Institute founded.[8]
- 1886 - Kharkov Public Library and Museum of Art and Industry[9] established.
- 1893 - Myronosytska Church rebuilt.[1]
- 1895 - Kharkov Locomotive Factory begins operating.
- 1897 - Population: 170,682.
20th century
- 1900
- 1901 - Annunciation Cathedral consecrated.[1]
- 1903 - "People's palace" established.[4]
- 1906 - Tram begins operating.
- 1913
- Choral Synagogue built.
- Population: 258,360.[10]
- 1917 - December: First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets (Kharkiv) held in city.
- 1918 - February: City becomes capital of Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.[2]
- 1919 - Annual congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) begins in Kharkov.
- 1920
- City becomes capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[2]
- Museum of History opens.[9]
- 1921 - Futurist Komkosmos group formed.[11]
- 1922 - City becomes part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
- 1924 - Kharkov Steam Locomotive Plant housing built.[1]
- 1925 - Football Club Metalist Kharkiv formed.
- 1926
- Traktor Stadium opens.
- Population: 417,342.[12]
- 1927
- Nova Generatsiia literary journal begins publication.[1]
- Morozov Design Bureau (arms industry) established.
- 1928
- 1929
- Institute of Political Education established.
- Palace of Labor, and textile workers' club built.[1]
- 1930
- International Conference of Revolutionary Writers held in city.[11]
- National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute founded.
- 1932
- Holodomor (famine).[15]
- City becomes part of the Kharkiv Oblast.
- 1933 - House of Trade and House of Planning Organizations[1] and KhTZ Stadium built.
- 1934
- Ukrainian SSR capital relocated from Kharkov to Kiev.[12]
- Kharkov Opera House opens.
- International Hotel built.[1]
- Red Factory Theatre built (approximate date).
- 1935
- College of Textile and Design established.
- Shevchenko monument erected in Postyshev Park.[1]
- 1939 - Population: 833,432.[12]
- 1940 - April-May: Execution of Polish officers in Kharkov.
- 1941 - 20-24 October: First Battle of Kharkov; Germans in power.
- 1942 - 12-28 May: Second Battle of Kharkov.
- 1943
- 19 February-15 March: Third Battle of Kharkov.
- 12-23 August: Fourth Battle of Kharkov; Soviets in power.
- 1947 - Zerkalʹnaya struya (fountain) built.
- 1954
- Kharkov Airport opens.
- Institute of Fire Safety established.[16]
- 1959 - Population: 934,136.
- 1962 - Institute of Radioelectronics established.
- 1964
- Lenin monument erected in Dzerzhinsky Square.
- Kharkiv State Academy of Culture active.
- 1970 - Population: 1,222,852.
- 1972 - 18 May: Airplane crash occurs near city.
- 1975 - Kharkiv Metro begins operating.
- 1979 - Population: 1,485,000.[17]
- 1981 - Kharkiv TV Tower erected.
- 1984 - Kharkiv Metro Bridge opens.
- 1988 - Museum of Literature established.[9]
- 1989
- Population: 1,609,959.
- Sister city relationship established with Cincinnati, USA.[18]
- 1990
- UkrSibbank (bank) headquartered in city.
- Mykola Lysenko Kharkiv Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre built.
- 1991 - City becomes part of independent Ukraine.[19]
- 1995 - 1995 Kharkiv drinking water disaster.
21st century
- 2001 - Population: 1,470,902.
- 2002 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia established.[20]
- 2004 - Palace of Sports "Lokomotiv" arena opens.
- 2006 - 22 April: 2006 Kharkiv supermarket bombings.
- 2010 - Hennadiy Kernes becomes mayor.
- 2012 - June: Some UEFA Euro 2012 football games played in Kharkiv.
- 2014
- 28 April: Attempted assassination of mayor Kernes.
- Kharkiv Battalion established.
- Population: 1,451,132.
See also
- History of Kharkiv (ru)
- Other names of Kharkiv (e.g. Charkow, Harkov, Kharkoff, Kharkow)
- List of mayors of Kharkiv
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Titus D. Hewryk (1992). "Planning of the Capital in Kharkiv". Harvard Ukrainian Studies 16. JSTOR 41036482.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ivan Katchanovski; et al. (2013). "Kharkiv". Historical Dictionary of Ukraine (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7847-1.
- ↑ Michael F. Hamm (1981). "Khar'kov's Progressive Duma, 1910-1914: A Study in Russian Municipal Reform". Slavic Review 40. JSTOR 2496425.
- 1 2 3 "Kharkov", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ "Russia". Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1878 18. New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1886 – via Hathi Trust.
- ↑ "Khar'kiv". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Retrieved February 2015.
- ↑ "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885.
- ↑ Samuel D. Kassow (1989). Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-05760-9 – via Google Books. (fulltext)
- 1 2 3 Elena Ivanova (2003). "Changes in Collective Memory: The Schematic Narrative Template of Victimhood in Kharkiv Museums". Journal of Museum Education 28. JSTOR 40479276.
- ↑ "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
- 1 2 George S. N. Luckyj (1990). Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1099-6.
- 1 2 3 Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Kharkov", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 937, OL 6112221M
- ↑ "A history of cities in 50 buildings", The Guardian (UK), 2015
- ↑ Chris Michaelides, ed. (2007). "Chronology of the European Avant Garde, 1900─1937". Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937. Online Exhibitions. British Library.
- ↑ Sheila Fitzpatrick (1999). Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-505000-4.
- ↑ Walter Rüegg, ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe 4. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
- ↑ Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
- ↑ "Cincinnati USA Sister City Association". Archived from the original on 19 May 2013.
- ↑ Ivan Katchanovski; et al. (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Ukraine (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7847-1.
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Ukraine". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved February 2015.
This article incorporates information from the Ukrainian Wikipedia and Russian Wikipedia.
Further reading
- Johann Georg Kohl (1844). "Kharkoff". Russia: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kharkoff, Riga, Odessa, the German Provinces on the Baltic, the Steppes, the Crimea, and the Interior of the Empire. Chapman and Hall.
- D. I. Bagalei and D. I. Miller (1905). Istoriia goroda Khar'kova za 250 let ego sushchestvovaniia s 1655 do 1905 g. [History of Kharkov] (in Ukrainian). Khar'kov. OCLC 16583341.
- Annette M. B. Meakin (1906). "Kharkoff". Russia, Travels and Studies. London: Hurst and Blackett. OCLC 3664651.
- "Kharkov". Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1914. OCLC 1328163.
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