This week in history

September 23: 1919. A joint meeting of the Direktoriya and governments of Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) and West Ukrainian People’s Republic decided to begin military action against Denikin’s army.

1943. The USSR took Poltava.

September 24: 1993. A Treaty on Creating the CIS Economic Union was signed in Moscow, with Ukraine declaring its preparedness to be an associate member.

1992. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).

September 25: 1914. The first battle of Semeniuk’s sotnia of the Ukrainian Sichovi Striltsy [Sich Sharpshooters] took place.

1986. The Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet awarded titles of Hero of the Soviet Union to Viktor Kybenko, Volodymyr Pravyk (posthumously), and Leonid Teliatnykov for their actions in cleaning up the Chornobyl disaster.

September 26: 1991. The Kyiv Pedagogical Institute was returned to the name of Mykhailo Drahomanov.

1995. Ukraine joined the Council of Europe. September 27: 1906. The first issue of Rada, a legal Ukrainian daily newspaper was published in Kyiv.

1993. The president of Ukraine issued an order On Creating a Coordination Committee to Implement Market Reforms and Combat Economic Crisis.

September 28: 1916. A medical department of the Higher Women’s Courses was opened in Katerynoslav.

1939. The treaty On Friendship and Borders between the Soviet Union and Germany was signed in Moscow, establishing the Ukrainian SSR’s western border along the rivers Western Buh and Narev.

September 29: 1920. An armistice was signed between Makhno and the Soviet government.

1941. The Nazis began the mass executions of Jews in the Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv where; over 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians were killed and buried.