August 10: 1378. Russian troops commanded by Grand Prince Dmitry Ivanovich routed the troops of the Golden Horde onto the Vozha river.
1700. Russia and Turkey signed the Constantinople Peace Treaty.
August 11: 1962. Soviet space television was born: the first TV program was broadcast live from the spaceships Vostok-3v and Vostok-4.
1999. A full solar eclipse will be sighted for the last time in this century from various points of Earth.
August,12: 1956. The USSR conducted the first hydrogen bomb test at the Semipalatinsk range.
1990. The Hill of Mourning was laid in the Poltava oblast to commemorate victims of the 1932-1933 famine.
August 13: 1677. Chyhyryn began its first defense from Turkish troops.
1914. The Tsarist government imposed military censorship and banned all publications in the Ukrainian language.
August 14: 1988. Rus-Ukraine was baptized.
1930. The USSR Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars passed a resolution on compulsory universal primary education.
August 15: 1649. Ukrainian troops commanded by Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeated the Polish near Zborow.
1945. Kharkiv received from the German city of Zedenick a railway car-load of valuables stolen by the Nazis from Kharkiv museums.
August 16: 1812. The Smolensk battle started between Russian troops commanded by General M. Barclay-de-Tolly and Napoleon's army.
1945. The USSR and Poland concluded a treaty on the borders between Ukraine, Belarus and the Polish state.






