The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic became Ukraine before the founding of the United Nations.
 In the years 17641781, Catherine the Great incorporated much of Central Ukraine into the Russian Empire, abolishing the Cossack Hetmanate and the Zaporozhian Sich, and was one of the people responsible for the suppression of the last major Cossack uprising, the Koliivshchyna
 The article 71 listed all of 15 union republics that united into the Soviet Union

