This week in history

Nov. 6 1943: Troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front liberate Kyiv, the capital city of Soviet Ukraine, during the Second World War.

2001: President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine pays a one-day working visit to Poland and addresses a conference on international terrorism.

Nov. 7 1917: The Small Rada adopts the Third Universal of the Central Rada, proclaiming the creation of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) within a federated Russia.

1951: Ukraine’s first television center starts broadcasting from Kyiv.

Nov. 8 1927: Construction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station begins in Zaporizhia.

2004: President Alexander Kwasniewski of Poland declares that democracy is evolving in Ukraine, as evidenced by the ongoing presidential campaign there.

Nov. 9 1976: Ukraine’s Helsinki Group is established in Kyiv.

1977: The Kyiv Helsinki Group publishes the Manifesto of the Ukrainian Human Rights Movement.

Nov 10. 1970: The Soviet Union launches the Luna-17 space station that lands the Lunokhod-1 earth-controlled lunar rover on the surface of the moon.

2004: The Central Election Committee announces the results of the first round of the presidential elections, naming Viktor Yushchenko as the winner.

Nov. 11 1920: Units of the Red Army and Nestor Makhno’s troops seize the Isthmus of Perekop, opening the way to the Crimean Peninsula.

1921. Kyiv hosts a Church Council that proclaims the founding of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church headed by Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky.

Nov. 12 1772: The Crimea is proclaimed independent of the Ottoman Empire.

1992: The coupon-karbovanets is introduced into circulation in Ukraine.