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Chernivtsi was under the control of the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1941, after which Romania recovered the city, and then again from 1944 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, after which it became part of independent Ukraine.
Chernivtsi, city, southwestern Ukraine, situated on the upper Prut River in the Carpathian foothills. The first documentary reference to Chernivtsi dates from about 1408, when it was a town in Moldavia and the chief centre of the area known as Bukovina. Chernivtsi later passed to the Turks and then.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
On 30 December 1922, along with the Russian, Byelorussian and Transcaucasian republics, the Ukrainian SSR became one of the founding members of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). [33] Bolshevik commissars in Ukraine (1919). Territories claimed by the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1920).
Apr 13, 2010 · A survivor of the repression of the "Ukrainian literary renaissance" of the 1930s, one of the most venerated establishment writers in Soviet Ukraine since 1941; a longtime member of the Central Committee (CC) of Ukrainian Communist Party (Bolshevik) (CP[B]) and the deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR); the head of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine (1953 ...
- Svetlana Frunchak
- 2010
According to official doctrine, the Ukrainian SSR is a sovereign state, federated on a footing of equality with Russia and the other fraternal Soviet republics. The theoretical sovereignty of the Ukraine finds an expression in her membership in the United Nations and the constitu-tional right of secession from the Union. A Soviet Ukrainian legal
The anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya, UPA) was a guerrilla war waged by Ukrainian nationalist partisan formations against the Soviet Union in the western regions of the Ukrainian SSR and southwestern regions of the Byelorussian SSR, during and after World War II.
Until 1937 it was called the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (; Ukrainska Sotsialistychna Radianska Respublika). The Ukrainian SSR ceased to exist on 24 August 1991, when the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR proclaimed the independent state of Ukraine. The Ukrainian SSR bordered on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the south, on ...
