September 29, 1926: the Soviet Ukrainian government proclaims the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Monastery an historical-cultural preserve. September 29, 1941: the Nazi begin mass shootings, primarily of Jews, in the Babyn Yar ravine near Kyiv. September 30, 1941: Soviet troops begin defense and offensive operations near Moscow. September 30, 1992: the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers the Association of Independent Researchers of the 1932-33 Famine-Genocide in Ukraine. October 1, 1653: a Council of the Land (Zemsky sobor) resolves to place the Zaporizhzhia Cossack Host under a protectorate of the Muscovite tsar. October 1, 1971: a republican musical art festival begins in Kyiv. October 2, 1920: the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars signs a cease-fire with anarchist Nestor Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine and they begin joint operations against Wrangel’s White forces. October 2, 1990: Kyiv students begin a hunger strike to bring down the Masol government. October 3, 1078: Princes Iziaslav and Vsevolod Yaroslavych battle Prince Oleh Sviatoslavych near Chernihiv. October 3, 1917: the All-Ukraine Congress of Cossacks convenes in Chyhyryn, approving their Statute and electing a General Council. October 4, 1957: the Soviet Union launches the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1. October 5, 1594: Severyn Nalyvaiko's Cossack rebellion begins.






