This week in history

September 26 1995: PACE Session in Strasbourg adopts a resolution on Ukraine’s accession to this organization.

2001: Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma’s visit to Kazakhstan begins; a number of agreements are signed during the visit.

September 27 1906: The first issue of the Ukrainian daily newspaper Rada comes off the presses in Kyiv.

1993: The president of Ukraine issues an edict setting up the Coordinating Committee for Market Reforms and Settlement of the Economic Crisis.

September 28 1916: A medical branch of the Higher Women’s Courses opens in Katerynoslav.

1939: A Soviet-German treaty on friendship and frontiers is signed in Moscow, whereby the western border of the Ukrainian SSR is set alongside the rivers of Western Buh and Narev.

September 29 1920: Makhno’s army and the Soviet government sign a truce after a long period of hostilities.

1941: Nazis start mass shootings of the civilian population at Babyn Yar. Some 800,000 Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians are massacred.

September 30 1992: The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers the Association of Researchers of the Famine Genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine.

2003: The Aviation Museum is founded in Kyiv.

October 1 1871: Pavlo Halahan College opens in Kyiv. In 1920 it is reorganized as a general educational vocational school.

1960: The Society for Cultural Relations with Ukrainians Abroad is set up in Kyiv.

October 2 1942: Politburo of the CC AUCP(B) adopts a decree on the development of partisan movement in Ukraine.

1990: Students go on hunger strike in Kyiv, demanding retirement of the chairman of the council of ministers of the Ukrainian SSR, official refusal to sign the union agreement, etc.