This week in history

September 14. 1973. Kerch and Novorossiysk were awarded the title of hero cities.

1991. The All-Ukrainian Forum of the Intelligentsia opened in Kyiv.

September 15. 1893. The newspaper Svoboda (Lyberty), the first Ukrainian-language newspaper in the US, came out in Jersey City.

1944. The restored State Museum of Occidental and Oriental Art was opened in Kyiv.

September 16. 1658. Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky signed the Treaty of Hadiach with Poland.

1971. Restoration of the eighteenth century belfry of the Kyiv St. Sophia National Preserve was completed.

September 17. 1939. The Red Army crossed the Soviet-Polish border and entered Western Ukraine and Western Belarus.

1989. The first Chervona Ruta Ukrainian national song festival began in Chernivtsi.

September 18. 1651. Bohdan Khmelnytsky signed the Treaty of Bila Tserkva with Poland.

1911. Tsarist Russian statesman Peter Stolypin was assassinated in Kyiv.

September 19. 1891. First Ukrainian settlers arrived in Montreal.

1991. The Kyiv-Mohyla Academy reopen in Kyiv.

September 20. 1862. Russia opened its first institution of higher musical education, the Petersburg State Conservatory.

1973. The Golden Autumn music festival began in Kyiv.