This week in history

October 3: 1078. Princes Iziaslav and Vsevolod, the sons of Yaroslav, engaged Oleh Sviatoslavych in a battle near Chernihiv.

1917. Chyhyryn hosted an All-Ukrainian Cossack Congress which endorsed the statute and elected the General Council with General Pavlo Skoropadsky at its head.

October 4: 1890. The Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party, the first Ukrainian political party, was formed in Lviv.

1989. A theological seminary of the Russian Orthodox Church was opened in Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.

October 5: 1594. The Cossacks, led by Severyn Nalyvaiko, began an uprising.

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

October 6: 1648. Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Cossack army laid siege to the city of Lviv. 1918. Kyiv State Ukrainian University was solemnly inaugurated.

October 7: 1619. Cossack senior officers and Polish commissars concluded a treaty which limited the Cossack registered corps strength to 3,000 and banned expeditions against the Ottoman Empire.

1990. The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine was founded.

October 8: 1944. Ukraine was finally liberated from the Nazi Germans.

1991. Verkhovna Rada passed the law on Ukrainian citizenship.

October 9: 1596. The Brest church congress officially proclaimed union with Rome.

1991. The Union of Youth Organizations of Ukraine was registered.