September 8: International Day of Journalistic Solidarity. September 8, 1944: Soviet troops launch the Eastern Carpathian offensive, clearing Ukraine’s western territories of the German Wehrmacht. September 8, 1990: the Ukrainian Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers holds its organizing convention in Zaporizhzhia. September 9, 1941: after pitched battles Soviet forces retreat from Chernihiv. September 9, 1976: the first section of the Lysychansk Oil Refinery starts up. September 10, 1943: Oleksandr Shtoharenko’s cantata-symphony “My Ukraine” is performed for the first time in Moscow. September 10, 1947: USSR Supreme Soviet institutes a medal For the Restoration of Donbas Coal Mines. September 11, 1943: The Hryhory Veriovka State Meritorious Academic Ukrainian Folk Choir is established. September 11, 1996: the first issue of Den comes off the press. September 12: Ukrainian Cinema Day. September 12, 1996: The Young People’s Aeronautics and Space Education Center opens in Dnipropetrovsk. September 13, 1848: Ukrainian Language Chair is opened at Lviv University. September 13, 1911: Socialist Revolutionary Dmitry Bagrov shoots Russian Prime Minister Petr Stolypin who dies on September 18. September 14: Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Workers’ Day. September 14, 1871: Ukraine’s first Joint Stock Land Bank starts operating in Kharkiv.






