The Weekly archive now on Internet (04/05/98)

The Weekly archive now on Internet

PARSIPPANY, N.J. - The Ukrainian Weekly on April 6 will unveil a website dedicated to archival materials published in the newspaper since its founding in 1933. The site currently encompasses 3,300 articles and may be found at http://www.panix.com/~polishuk/TheWeekly/home.shtml.

The Special Issues Section includes year-in-review issues of The Ukrainian Weekly for the years 1986 through 1997, as well as the "Decade in Review" published at the end of 1979, which examined the key events of the 1970s from the Ukrainian perspective.

Also on The Ukrainian Weekly Archive site are: the first issue of The Ukrainian Weekly dated October 6, 1933; two issues devoted to the 1960 visit of Nikita Khrushchev to the United States; the special issue published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Great Famine of 1932-1933; as well as issues dedicated to the 60th anniversary of The Weekly and the centennial of the Ukrainian National Association.

The Weekly issues which reported on the nuclear accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant (1986), Ukraine's declaration of sovereignty (1990), its proclamation of independence and the results of its referendum on independence (both in 1991) also may be found in the site's Special Interest Section.

Full texts of all issues published in 1996 and 1997, and excerpts of top stories from the newspaper's 1998 issues also are available. All sections of The Ukrainian Weekly Archive are searchable. The site is created and maintained by Serge Polishchuk, member of The Weekly production staff.

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