This week in history

September 25: 1921. A member of the Ukrainian Military Organization made an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Poland’s Marshal Jozef Pilsudski.

1986. The Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet approved a decree on awarding the title of Hero of the Soviet Union to Kybenko and Pravyk (posthumously) and Teliatnykov for their bravery and heroism immediately after the Chornobyl disaster.

September 26: 1854. The defense of Sevastopol began.

1995. Ukraine entered the Council of Europe.

September 27: 1885. The South Russia Institute of Technology, the first technical institute in Ukraine, was founded in Kharkiv.

1977. The Chornobyl nuclear plant produced its first electricity.

September 28: 1621. Ukrainian and Polish troops won a victory over Turkey at Khotyn.

1939. The Soviet-German Treaty on Friendship and Borders was signed in Moscow dividing Poland between Stalinist Russian and Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

September 29: 1920. After long fighting an armistice was signed between the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine led by Nestor Makhno and the Soviet government of Ukraine.

1941. The Nazis began mass murders, mainly of Jews, at Babyn Yar in Kyiv. Over 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians were killed.

September 30: 1876. Kievskaya starina first published the biography of Hryhory Skovoroda.

1941. The defense of Moscow fegan.

October 1: 1871. The Yaroslav Halahan Collegium was opened in Kyiv, which was in 1920 transformed into a general education labor school.

1926. The Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater was founded, later renamed after Taras Shevchenko.