This week in history

October 24: 1949. Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian writer, was killed in Lviv.

1991. Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada ratified the Declaration on Ukraine’s Non-Nuclear Status.

October 25: 1848. The Galician-Ruthenian Matytsia Society was formed.

1938. The Ukrainian Artists Union was founded.

October 26: 1612. Zaporozhzhian Cossacks together with the Poles conquered Moscow.

1939. The People’s Assembly of Western Ukraine started, declaring Soviet Power on Western Ukraine territory, its entering the Soviet Union and reunification with the Ukrainian SSR.

October 27: 1882. The first appearance of the Ukrainian Touring Professional Theater founded by Mark Kropyvnytsky took place in Yelisavethrad (now Kirovohrad).

1991. The Treaty on the Conditions of International Relations between Ukraine and Uzbekistan was signed in Tashkent.

October 28: 1944. Ukraine was cleared of German forces.

1989. Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR ratified the law On the State Status of the Ukrainian Language.

October 29: 1625. A battle began between the insurgents leaded by Mark Zhmaylo and Polish forces near the town of Krylov.

1800. The first blast-furnace was put into action at the Luhansk Metallurgical Plant.

October 30: 1708. Muscovite Tsar Peter I granted a charter to the Zaporozhzhian Cossacks promising not to oppress them and invited their starshyna (senior officers) to Hlukhov for a council to elect a Hetman.

1941. The 250 day defense of Sevastopol began.