Important dates in the history of Sloboda Ukraine
and Kharkiv city


	Formation of the city
	Population - dynamics of growth
	Most Important Events
	Plants and Factories
	Universities and colleges
	Theatres
	Cathedrals and Churches

Formation of the city
1627	The first record of Kharkiv
1655	The first written document for the city
1656	Tzar Alexey Michailovitch assigns the town as independent office of voevode (province)
1765	The Centre of the Sloboda Ukraine Province
1780	Kharkiv becomes the centre of the region ruled by governor
1835	The Centre of Kharkov Province
1917	The Capital of Ukraine
1923	The Centre of the Kharkiv District
1932	The Centre of the Kharkov Region

Population - dynamics of growths

1724 - 1301courtyards
1732 - 7 345
1794 - 11 000
1801 - 50 300
1901 - 198 000
1917 - 382 000
1927 - 421 000
1939 - 833 000
1945 - 459 300
1950 - 718 000
1959 - 930 000
1962 - 1 000 000
1965 - 1 070 000
1970 - 1 233 000
1982 - 1 503 000
1989 - 1 611 000
1996 - 1 555 100
1999 - 1 510 200

Most Important Events

1689 - The Pokrovsky Cathedral had been built
1727 - Collegium
1761 -First Library
1791 - First Theatre (Building had been erected in 1816)
1805 - University
1812 - The Noble Maidens Institute
1812 - The First Newspaper
1816 - The First Magazine
1835 - Kharkov Province had been formed
1857 - Telegraph
1869 - Railway
1876 - The City Post-Office
1881 - Water-Supply
1882 - The Horse Railway
1883 - Musical Secondary School
1885 - Institute of Technology
1888 - Telephone
1896 - Zoo
1897 - Electric Power Station
1886 - The Korolyenko Library
1906 - Tram-line
1908 - Socker team
1924 - Airport
1928 - Taxi cabs
1939 - Trolley Buses
---- - Children's Railway
1955 - Bus Communication
1975 - The First Subway Line

Plants and Factories

1870 - Iron Casting Plant (now - the "Krasnyj Octyzbr" Plant)
1873 - Zilberg Printing-House (now - Frunze Factory)
1879-1882 - Gelferich-Sade Company (now - Serp i Molot Plant)
1891 - Iron Casting and Mechanical Plant (now - Svet Shakhtyora Plant)
1896 - Confectionery
1895-1897 - Steam Engine Plant (now - Malyshev Plant)
1899 - Rope factory
1906 - Pharmaceutical Factory
1915 - Kharkov Elecrtro - Mechanical Plant (now - KhEMZ)
1915 - Derzhavinskaya Manufactory (now - Stockings Factory)
1916 - Cloth Sewing Workshop ( now - Tinyakov Factory)
1916 - Iron Casting Workshop (now - Refrigerator Plant)
1923 - Bycicle Plant (Petrovsky Plant)
1931 - the tractor Plant ( Ordzhonikidze Plant)
1934 - Turbine Plant ( Kirov Plant)
1935 - Control and Measuring Devices Plant
1945 - Bearing Plant
1946 -Electrotyazhmash (Lenin Plant)

Universities and colleges

1805 -University
1816 - Agricultural Institute
1873 - Veterinary Institute
1885 - Institute of Technology (since 1929 - Polytechnical Institute)
1919 - G.S.Skovoroda Pedagogic Institute
1920 - Law aacademy
1921 - Pharmaceutical Institute
1927 - Institute of Painting
1930 - Aviation Institute
1930 - Institute of Automobiles and Roads
1930 - The Railway Institute
1930 - The Municipal Economy Institute
1930 - Construction Engineering Institute
1930 - Institute of Economics and Engineering
1930 - The Agriculture Mechanization and Electrification Institute
1930 - The Mining Institute (now the University of Radio-Electronics)
1963 - Institute of Arts
1967 - Institute of Catering

Theatres

1886 - Circus
1918 - Les Kurbas Theatre "Berezil"
1922 - Shevchenko Ukrainian Drama Theatre
1925 - Opera and Balley Theatre
1929 - Musical Comedy Theatre
1929 - Phylarmonic Society
1933 - Pushkin Russian Drama Theatre
1939 - Krupskaya Puppit-Show Theatre
1960 - Junior Spectator Theatre
1985 - Organ Music Hall in the Uspensky Cathedral

Cathedrals and Churches

Cathedrals
Pokrovsky
1659 - The first record of the cathedral
1689 - Pokrovsky Cathedral, the stone temple

Uspensky
1658 - The first record of the Assumption church which had been built in the last years of XVI century and eventually had been transformed into Assumption Cathedral
1685 - 1687 - The Stone Building of Cathedral
1771 - Uspensky Cathedral new temple

Blagovyeshchensky
1655 - The first wooden temple of Annunciation
1789 - The stone temple had been founded
1794 - Consecration of the stone temple
1888 - Foundation of the third temple

Holy-Trinity Cathedral
1673 - First record of Trinity cathedral
1758 - The stone temple had been founded
1764 - Consecration

Churches
1659 - Mykolayivska
1689 - Dmytriivska
1668 - Rozhdestvenskaya
1675 - Ascension Church
1742 - Resurrection Church (new wooden church)
1663 - Michailivska
1797 - Kladbischenska
1866 - Zuravlivska
Mironositska
Kaplunovska
Holodnohirska
Golderivska
Lysohirska
Klochkivska
Ozeranska
Ivanivska

Other confessions:
Roman Catholic Cathedral
Lutheran Cathedral
Central Synagogue

Important dates in the history of Sloboda Ukraine and Kharkiv city

Important dates in the history of Sloboda Ukraine
and Kharkiv city