This week in history

September 7. 1812. The Battle of Borodino took place.

1994. A constitutional coup was attempted in the Crimea. A parliamentary republic was in fact established in the Crimea by decision of the peninsular parliament.

September 8. 1944. Soviet troops launched their East-Carpathian offensive.

1989. Kyiv hosted the founding assembly of the Popular Movement of Ukraine for Perestroika (Rukh).

September 9. 1913. Russian pilot PСtr Nesterov became the first in the world to make a «death loop» in a Newport-IV airplane.

1941. Soviet troops abandoned Chernihiv after fierce battles.

September 10. 1943. Moscow heard the first performance of A. Shtoharenko's symphonic cantata My Ukraine .

September 11. Day of the Ukrainian Cinema

1993. A monument to 1933 famine victims was dedicated in Kyiv.

1996. The first issue of Den appeared.

September 12. 1995. Ukraine and Israel signed a memorandum on the liberalization of trade and cooperation on public health.

September 13.1996. The Youth Aerospace Education Center was opened in Dnipropetrovsk.