This week in history

September 17: 1939. The Red Army crossed the Soviet-Polish border, entering the territory of Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia.

1989. The First Chervona Ruta [Red Rue] Festival of Ukrainian Song took place in Chernivtsi.

September 18: 1640. The Church Council began in Kyiv, approving the Orthodox Catechism.

1996. The Ministry of Foreign Economical Connections and Trade passed a regulation On Laser Coding of the Goods Produced in Ukraine.

September 19: 1941 . Soviet troops retreated from Kyiv after seventy-two days’ defense.

1991. The activity of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy was renewed in Kyiv.

September 20: 1919. The UNR Army and Nestor Makhno insurgent regiments signed a treaty on joint fight against terrorism.

1975. The Kuban tanker, biggest oil tanker in the country, was launched at the Kerch Shipbuilding Factory.

September 21: 1841. A medical department was founded at the Kyiv University, now Bohomolets Ukrainian State Medical University.

1993. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine satisfied Leonid Kuchma’s request on retirement and released him from duty of prime minister of Ukraine.

September 22: 1935. The Botanical Garden was founded in Kyiv as a part of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

1993. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the All-Ukrainian Entrepreneurs’ Union.

September 23: 1919. A joint session of the Direktoriya and governments of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and Western Ukrainian People’s Republic passed a decision to start immediately military actions against Denikin’s army.

1943. The troops of the Steppe and Voronezh Fronts liberated Poltava.