September 22, 1935: Botanical Gardens open in Kyiv. September 22, 1955: the USSR’s largest observatory opens near Bakhchisarai in the Crimea. September 23, 1943: Soviet forces enter Poltava pursuing the retreating Nazis. September 23, 1989: Slovo (The Word) of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society comes off the presses for the first time. September 24, 1941: the USSR accedes to the British-US Atlantic Charter proclaiming the democratic targets of the war against Nazi Germany. September 24, 1992: Kyiv-Mohyla National University opens in Kyiv. September 25, 1838: the world’s first power-driven boat, designed by Russian electrical engineer Yakobi, is tested on the Neva River. September 15, 1917: the third coalition provisional government, headed by Aleksandr Kerensky, is formed in Petrograd (then St. Petersburg). September 26, 1973: the USSR’s largest ore carrier, Zoya Kosmodemianskaya, is launched at Mykolaiv. September 26, 1995: Ukraine is admitted to the Council of Europe. September 27: International Tourism Day. September 27, 1977: the first 1 million kilowatt power unit at the Chornobyl station starts generating. September 28: Machinist’s Day. September 28, 1939: the German-Soviet friendship and frontiers treaty is signed in Moscow.






