Today, the Ukrainian side attempts to juridically qualify the famine of the 1930s in the Ukraine as genocide. However, these tragic events took place not only before the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of the Genocide in 1948 (which entered into force in 1951; in Russia – on August 1, 1954), but even before the very term “genocide” was coined by R. Lemkin, a Polish lawyer, in 1943.