Chronicle of the prohibition of the Ukrainian language (400 years)

Ukrainian language for centuries been subjected to harassment by those States in which Ukraine was a part.

The Ukrainian language was restricted, prohibited and canceled by circulars, decrees, laws, and anathemas.

Here is a chronicle of the prohibitions of the Ukrainian language:

1622 - Tsar Mikhail’s order (to supply the Moscow Patriarch Filaret) burn in the state all copies of "The gospel"  printed in Ukraine by K. Stavrovetskij.

1696 - Decree of the Polish Sejm on the introduction of the Polish language in the courts and institutions of Right-Bank Ukraine.

1690 - conviction and the anathema of the Russian Orthodox Church in the "Kiev new book" P. Graves, K. Stavrovetskij, Polotsky, Baranovych, A. Radzivilovskogo and others.

1720 - Peter I decree banning the printing on the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian texts withdrawal from church books.

1729 - Order of Peter II - rewrite the Ukrainian language in the Russian all government decisions and orders.

1763 - Catherine II decree banning the teaching in the Ukrainian language in the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

1769 - Ban of Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to print and use Ukrainian primer.

1775 - Destruction of Zaporizhzhya Sich and closing schools with Ukrainian Cossack regiment offices.

1789 - The disposal of the Polish Sejm Commission Edukatsiynoy the closure of all Ukrainian schools.

1817 - Introduction of the Polish language in all public schools in Western Ukraine.

1832 - Reorganization of education in the Right-Bank Ukraine on empire-wide basis, with a translation a learning into Russian language.

1847 - The defeat of Cyril and Methodius and the strengthening of the brutal persecution of the Ukrainian language and culture, the prohibition of the best works of Shevchenko, Kulish, Kostomarov and others.

1859 - Ministry of religions and sciences of Austria-Hungary in Eastern Galicia and Bukovina attempt to replace the Ukrainian Slavic alphabet to the Latin.

1862 - Closing Free Sunday Ukrainian schools for adults in podrossiyskoy Ukraine.

1863 – Valuev’s  Circular banning censorship to give permission to print Ukrainian-spiritual and popular educational literature: "no separate Little Russian language was not and could not be."

1864 - Adoption of the Charter of the elementary school, in which training should be conducted only in Russian.

1869 - Introduction of the Polish language as the official language of education and administration of Eastern Galicia.

1870 - Minister of Education of Russian’s  explanation that "the ultimate goal of education for all foreigners" irrefutable be Russification. "

1876 - Ems decree Alexander II on banning the printing and importation from abroad of any Ukrainian-language literature, as well as to ban Ukrainian stage performances and printing 

Ukrainian text under the notes, that is, folk songs.

1881 - Prohibition of teaching in public schools and church sermons pronouncing the Ukrainian language.

1884 - Alexander II prohibition Ukrainian theater performances in all provinces of Little Russia.

1888 - Alexander II decree banning the use of the Ukrainian language in official institutions, and the baptism of Ukrainian names.

1892 - Prohibition to translate books from Russian into Ukrainian.

1895 – Prohibition of the Main Administration of Press to extradite Ukrainian children's books.

1911 - VII noble ruling Congress in Moscow on exclusively Russian-language education and non-use of other languages in Russian schools.

1914 - Prohibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko; Nicholas II's decree on the abolition of the Ukrainian press.

1914, 1916 - Russification campaign in Western Ukraine; ban Ukrainian words, education, church.

1922 - part of the proclamation of the leadership of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), and the Communist Party (b) the "theory" of the struggle in Ukraine two cultures - the city (Russia) and peasant (Ukrainian), which should be the first to win.

1924 - Law of the Republic of Poland on the restriction of the use of the Ukrainian language in public administration, court, education subservient to the Polish Ukrainian lands.

1924 - Law of the Romanian kingdom of the obligations of all the "Romanians" who "lost their maternal language," to educate children only in Romanian schools.

1925 - Final closure Ukrainian "secret" of the university in Lviv

1926 - Stalin's letter "Comrade. Kaganovich and other members of the PB of the CC CP (b) "with the sanction of the fight against the" ethnic bias ", the beginning of the persecution figures “Ukrainianization".

1933 - Stalin's telegram to terminate the "Ukrainization".

1933 - Cancellation in Romania Ministerial Decree of 31 December 1929, which authorizes a few hours a week of Ukrainian language in schools with a majority of students Ukrainians.

1934 - A special order of the Ministry of Education of Romania on dismissal for "hostile attitude towards the state and the Romanian people" of all Ukrainian teachers who demanded the return to school of the Ukrainian language.

1938 - CPC and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) "On obligatory study of the Russian language in the schools of the national republics and regions," appropriate decision CPC and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b).

1947 - "Operation Vistula"; settlement of the ethnic Ukrainians from the Ukrainian lands "scattered" between Poles in western Poland to accelerate their polonization.

1958 - Study of all languages except Russian, at the request of students' parents.

1960-1980 - Mass closure of Ukrainian schools in Poland and Romania.

1970 - Order of the thesis defense only in Russian (PhD thesis by Russian only).

1972 - Ban of the party bodies to celebrate the anniversary of the museum Kotlyarevskyi in Poltava.

1973 – Ban celebrates the anniversary of the works Kotlyarevskyi "Aeneid."

1974 - Decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU "On preparing for the 50th anniversary of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", which first proclaimed the creation of "a new historical community - the Soviet people", the official policy of denationalization.

1978 - Decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers "On measures to further improve the learning and teaching of the Russian language in the Union Republics" ("Brezhnev Circular").

1983 - Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers "On additional measures to improve the study of the Russian language in secondary schools and other educational institutions of the Union Republics" ("Andropov decree")

1984 - Decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers "On further improvement of general secondary education of young people and improving the working conditions of secondary school."

1984 - Beginning in the USSR payments increased by 15% the salaries of teachers of the Russian language in comparison with the Ukrainian language teachers.

1984 - Order of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR on translating of records management in the museums of the Soviet Union to the Russian language.

1989 - Central Committee resolution on the "legislative consolidation of the Russian language as the national".

1990 - Adoption of the Supreme Soviet of the Law on Languages where the Russian language was granted official status.

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