This week in history

August 31, 1935: Aleksei Stakhanov, a Donbas coal miner, set an output record, exceeding the shift quota 14 times.

August 31, 1986: the passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov and sinks in a sea accident at Novorossiysk, with many passengers and crew members perishing.

September 1, 1581: Yermak, leading a Cossack regiment, sets off to conquer Siberia.

September 1, 1919: Hungary and Poland sign a final truce in Lviv.

September 2, 1913: the First All- Russian Olympiad begins in Kyiv.

September 2, 1945: Japan signs an act of unconditional capitulation ending World War II.

September 3, 1953: a CPSU Central Committee Plenum elects Nikita Khrushchev First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee.

September 3, 1973: the monument to Lesia Ukrayinka is unveiled in Kyiv.

September 4, 1928: the Ukrainian SSR Council of People's Commissars adopts a new Ukrainian orthography (known as the Skrypnyk system, to be repressed in 1933).

September 4, 1991: the national golden-blue flag is unfurled over the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

September 5, 1924: members of the Ukrainian Military Organization stage an attempt on Polish President Stanislaw Wojciechowski in Lviv.

September 5, 1990: an international symposium dedicated to the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine opens in Kyiv.