This week in history

Sept. 2, 1913: The 1st All-Russian Sports Olympics opens in Kyiv.

1930: The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR pass a resolution on administrative and territorial reform in Ukraine, abolishing counties and establishing a two-tier (center-raion) administrative system.

Sept. 3, 1915: The Austro-Hungarian army forms a regiment of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen.

1993: Presidents Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine and Boris Yeltsin of Russia sign a protocol in the Crimean town of Masandra to settle the problem of the Black Sea Fleet.

Sept. 4, 1928: The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR approves a new (“Skrypnykite”) Ukrainian orthography, which remains in force until 1933.

1965: During the premiere of the film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors in Kyiv’s Ukraine Cinema a rally takes place in protest against a new wave of political repressions against Ukrainian intellectuals.

Sept. 5, 1924: In Lviv the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) makes an attempt on the life of President Stanislaw Wojciechowski of Poland.

1990: An international symposium in Kyiv is convened to discuss the scale of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine, whose artificially-engineered nature has been hitherto officially denied.

Sept. 6, 1672: Hetman Petro Doroshenko of Ukraine captures the city of Kamianets-Podilsky.

1994: During his official visit to Ukraine, President Jiang Zeming of the People’s Republic of China signs agreements on cooperation in merchant sea shipping and postal and electronic communications.

Sept. 7, 1989: The Popular Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) convenes its founding congress.

1994: A constitutional coup is attempted in the Crimea, where the local parliament resolves to establish a parliamentary republic.

Sept. 8, 1619: Two Ukrainian comedies by Yakub Havatovych are staged for the first time in Kamianka-Strumylivska.