This week in history

October 5 1594. The Cossack uprising led by Severyn Nalyvaiko began.

1993. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Communist Party of Ukraine.

October 6 1648. The insurgent army of Bohdan Khmelnytsky laid siege to Lviv.

October 7 1959. The Soviet spacecraft Luna-3 photographed for the first time the dark side of the moon.

1963. A nuclear test ban treaty was signed between the USSR, the USA, and Great Britain.

October 8 1944. Ukraine was completely liberated from the Nazi Germans.

1991. Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada passed the law on Ukrainian citizenship.

October 9 1942. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR abolished political commissars in the Red Army.

1975. Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

October 10 1853. The monument to St. Volodymyr the Baptist was unveiled on Mykhailivsky Hill in Kyiv.

1932. The Dnipro Hydroelectric Station was commissioned in Zaporizhzhia.

October 11 1665. Contractual accords (the Moscow Articles) were signed between the Moscow government and the Left-Bank Ukrainian Cossack leadership, which limited the administrative and national autonomy of the latter.

1921. Kyiv hosted the All-Ukrainian Orthodox Assembly which established the Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephalous Church.