This week in history

November 5: 1920. A convention was signed in Warsaw between representatives of the UNR government and the Russian Political Committee on joint military operations against the Bolsheviks.

1953. The first all-welded bridge by the project by Borys Paton was put into operation in Kyiv.

November 6: 1943. In the course of the Kyiv operation First Ukrainian Front troops liberated Kyiv.

1960. The Kyiv subway began operations.

November 7: 1917. The Central Rada’s Third Universal was approved by the Small Rada in Kyiv, proclaiming Ukrainian People’s Republic as a part of the Russian Federation.

1951. The first television center in Ukraine began work in Kyiv.

November 8: 1927. The construction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station began in Zaporizhzhia.

1938. The first autonomous government of Transcarpathia was established in Uzhhorod.

November 9: 1976. The Ukrainian Public Group to Support Implementing the Helsinki Agreements was founded.

1977. The Ukrainian Helsinki Group made public its Manifesto of the Ukrainian Human Rights Movement.

November 10: 1970. The USSR launched the Luna-17 [Moon-17] space station, carrying the first Lunokhod-1 self-propelled device managed from the earth.

1993. The organizers of the White Brotherhood religious union Yury Kryvonohov and Maryna Tsvyhun, a.k.a. Mariya Devi Christ, were arrested in Kyiv.

November 11: 1920. Red Army regiments and Nestor Makhno’s army occupied Perekop, opening the road to the Crimean peninsula.

1921. The Church Council started in Kyiv, proclaiming the Autocephalous Orthodox Church with Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky as its head.