The Union of Russia and Ukraine Tercentenary or the Reunification of Ukraine with Russia Tercentenary (, ''300-letiye vossoyedineniya Ukrainy s Rossiyei''; ) was a republic-wide celebration within the

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and

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, starting in February 1954, in celebration of the union between Russia and Ukraine formed by the 1654

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Bri ...

. In preparation for the event, a special Republican commission for commemoration of the union between Russia and Ukraine Tercentenary was formed, headed by the First Secretary of the

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Alexei Kirichenko. A three-volume body of documents and materials titled as "Reunification of Ukraine with Russia" was published in 1953 in

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, prepared jointly by the History Institute of the

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, History Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, and the Ukrainian Directorate of Archives, and included 747 documents of the period between 1620 and 1654. The materials were prepared by a group of Soviet Russian and Ukrainian historians organized in 1952 and approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. As part of the celebration, the

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was transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. In 1954, both

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and Cherkasy Pedagogical Institute were named after the Union of Russia and Ukraine Tercentenary. Also, several cities were renamed including Proskuriv as

Khmelnytskyi Khmelnytskyi (, ) is a city in western Ukraine. Located on the Southern Bug, it serves as the administrative centre of Khmelnytskyi Oblast as well as Khmelnytskyi Raion within the oblast. With a population of Khmelnytskyi is the second-larges ...

and Pereyaslav as Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi in honor of Bogdan Khmelnytsky. Full-scale parades were organized in Moscow and Kiev. It was a period when television broadcasting in the Soviet Union was just beginning, so most of the celebration was being broadcast on radio.Fesunenko, A.
Переяславська угода «возз'єднання» України з Москвою не передбачала
wz.lviv.ua. 12 June 2018'' The Russian aspirations to reunite with Ukraine is one of the main subjects in the

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. According to the

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, in the 18th century there were no

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, but rather reunification of Ukrainian lands (

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). Hryhoriy Serhiyenko.
Union of the Right-bank Ukraine with Russia (ВОЗЗ'ЄДНАННЯ ПРАВОБЕРЕЖНОЇ УКРАЇНИ З РОСІЄЮ)
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Gallery

File:SovietUnionStampUkrRusUnion1954.jpg, Soviet stamp of 2 rubles (1954) File:1954. 300-летие воссоединения Украины с Россией.jpg, Soviet stamp of 1 ruble (1954) File:1979 USSR Stamp 325th anniversary of Russian-Ukrainian reunion.jpg, Soviet stamp of 4 kopecks (1979) File:USSR 1954-06-03 R-envelope.jpg, The 1954 envelope with additional Soviet stamps File:Lev Tolstoy monument at courtyard of former Moscow estate plaque.jpg, Soviet commemorating placard on monument of Lev Tolstoy

References

{{Reflist, 3 Tricentennial anniversaries Public holidays in the Soviet Union Russia–Ukraine relations 1954 in the Soviet Union Nationalism in the Soviet Union