This week in history

October 14. Day of the Ukrainian Cossacks.

1919. The Ukrainian Directory, government, and army swore allegiance to the UNR in Kamyanets-Podilsky.

1942. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was created.

October 15: 1926. A Russian Dramatic Theater (since 1939 named for Lesia Ukrayinka) was opened in Kyiv.

1944. Zaporizhzhia was taken from the Nazis.

October 16: 1890. The Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party was established in Lviv.

1917. The All-Ukrainian Free Cossacks’ Congress started its work in Chyhyryn, electing its General Rada headed by Pavlo Skoropadsky.

October 17: 1676. Poland and Turkey signed the Peace of Zhuravne, whereby Turkey retained Podillia and a part of Right-Bank Ukraine.

1961. The XXII CPSU Congress was opened, approving the Party’s new Statute, Program, and Twelve Commandments of Builders of Communism.

October 18: 1596. The Union of Brest was proclaimed, creating the Uniate Church in Belarus and Ukraine.

1995. Ukraine joined the Council of Europe.

October 19: 1653. The Muscovite Tsar’s embassy headed by Buturlin left for Pereyaslav to administer to the Zaporozhzhian Host the oath of loyalty to the Tsar.

1989. The founding session of the Republican Association of Ukrainian Studies took place.

October 20: 1924. Ukraine’s first radio station opened in Kharkiv.

1995. The All-Ukrainian Orthodox Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) elected its head Metropolitan Filaret.