October 20, 1923: the first issue of the literary magazine Barricades of the Theater comes off the presses in Kyiv.
October 20, 1924: Ukraine’s first radio station becomes operational in Kharkiv.
October 21, 1898: Black Sea Shipyard is founded in Mykolaiv.
October 21, 1923: the ANT-1 airplane, designed by A. N. Tupolev, takes off on its maiden flight.
October 22, 1918: Kamyanets State University opens in Kamyanets-Podilsk.
October 22, 1932: for the last time before the Manmade Famine (Holodomor) of 1932-1933 the Ukrainian SSR Commissariat of Agriculture and Collective Farm Center authorizes the distribution of food to collective farmers.
October 22, 1991: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the Union of Officers of Ukraine.
October 23, 1859: two Sunday schools open in Kyiv.
October 23, 1990: the Supreme Council of Ukraine adopts an amendment to the Constitution nullifying Article 6 about the Communist Party’s “leading and guiding” role.
October 24: International UN Day.
October 24, 1991: the Supreme Council of Ukraine passes a resolution declaring Ukraine a nuclear-free state.
October 24, 1994: President Kuchma signs a friendship and cooperation agreement while on an official visit to Canada.
October 25, 1938: the Artists’ Union of Ukraine is established.
October 25, 1941: Soviet forces retreat from Kharkiv after pitched battles with the German Wehrmacht.
October 26, 1922: the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR passes a decree on the minting the chervonets ten-ruble gold coin.






