November 1976 — Ukrainian community groups was established to promote the implementation of the Helsinki agreements.
Almost all members of this Ukrainian Helsinki Group where subsequently repressed, four of them (Vasyl Stus, Yuriy Lytvyn, Oleksa Tykhy and Valeriy Marchenko) died in Soviet camps (Gulag).
29–30 April 1990 — Ukrainian Republican Party (URP) was established in the place of the UHU.
[7] In the 1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election the URP core party obtained nine seats initially adding three more by the end of the year.
[20] The party did participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election in five single-member districts; but again did not win seats.