This week in history

October 4, 1890. The Russian-Ukrainian Radical Party, the first Ukrainian political party, was founded in Lviv.

1996. The South Ukrainian Economic Union was created in the Crimea.

October 5, 1933. The People’s Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR passed a decision on the Berezil Theater, discharging Les Kurbas (later shot) from the post of its artistic director.

1993. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Communist Party of Ukraine.

October 6, 1648. The siege of Lviv by Bohdan Khmelnytsky insurgent army began.

1918. The opening ceremony took place at the Kyiv State Ukrainian University.

October 7, 1990. The Fifteenth Congress of Trade Unions of Ukraine ended, founding the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine.

1996. After re-registration the Ukrainian Cossacks national patriotic organization gained the status of a defense and sports association.

October 8, 1886. The Kharkiv Public Library received its first readers.

1938. The first government of autonomous Transcarpathia, which on December 30, 1938 became Carpatho-Ukraine, was formed in Uzhhorod.

October 9, 1928. The Greek Catholic Theological Academy was founded in Lviv.

1944. The People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR issued an order On Liquidating OUN Bands in Western Ukraine.

October 10, 1932. The first nuclear reaction splitting the nucleus of lithium was conducted at the Kharkiv Physics and Technical Institute.

1973. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine passed a secret resolution providing for repressive actions against unregistered religious groups.