This week in history

October 10: 1932. The solemn opening of Dniprelstan (now Dniprohes, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station) named after Vladimir Lenin was held.

1973. A secret decision was approved by the Ukrainian Communist Party Central Committee Politburo providing a series of measures against unregistered religious denomination.

ober 11: 1665. Moscow Articles, a treaty between the Muscovite government and the Left-Bank Cossack rshyna icer corps) restricting Ukraine’s administrative ъe ъe ъe ъe ъeand national autonomy, was signed.

1921. The All-Ukrainian Orthodox Council was held in Kyiv, founding the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

October 12: 1552. Ivan the Terrible’s troops captured Kazan. After the Kazan Khanate’s submission the tsar departed to conquer the Astrakhan Khanate.

1920. An armistice and preliminary peace conditions were signed between RSFSR and Ukrainian SSR on the one side and Poland on the other.

October 13: 1914. Russia’s Halychyna Governor General Count Bobrinsky issued an order prohibiting the circulation of Ukrainian books.

1992. The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada ratified Leonid Kuchma’s appointment as a Prime Minister.

October 14: 1919. The Direktoriya, government, and army swore allegiance to the UNR in Kamianets-Podilsky.

1942. The Ukrainian Insurrectionary Army (UPA) was founded.

October 15: 1926. The Russian Drama Theater was founded in Kyiv and since 1939 has born the name of Lesia Ukrayinka.

1959. Stepan Bandera was murdered in Munich by KGB agent Bohdan Stashynsky.

October 16: 1918. Hetman Petro Skoropadsky issued a decree on the rebirth of Cossacks.

1941. After 73 days of severe battles the Soviet troops abandoned Odesa.