This week in history

Oct. 3 1917: An all-Ukraine Cossack convention convenes in Chyhyryn. The participants adopt a statute and elect a General Council headed by Pavlo Skoropadsky.

1973: A monument to the prominent Ukrainian poetess Lesia Ukrainka is unveiled in Kyiv.

Oct. 4: 1890: The Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party is officially registered as Ukraine’s first political party.

1996: The South-Ukrainian Economic Union is established in the Crimea.

Oct. 5 1933: The People’s Commissariat of Education adopts a resolution on the Berezil Drama Company, as a result of which Les Kurbas is dismissed from his post as the theater’s art director and manager.

1993: The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Oct. 6 1648: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s rebel army besieges Lviv.

2001: The presidents of Ukraine and Poland, Leonid Kuchma and Alexander Kwasniewski, open the European Collegium of Ukrainian and Polish Universities in Lublin.

Oct.7 1990: The 7th Congress of Ukrainian Trade Unions concludes with founding of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine.

2003: The Ukraine-EU Summit begins in Yalta.

Oct. 8 1886: The Kharkiv Municipal Public Library opens.

1938: The first government of autonomous Transcarpathia is established in Uzhhorod. As of Dec. 30, 1938 it becomes known as Carpatho- Ukraine.

Oct. 9 1928: The Greek Catholic Theological Academy is founded in Lviv.

1944: The NKVD of the USSR issues a directive ordering the liquidation of “OUN gangs in Western Ukraine.”