This week in history

Sept. 30 1992: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the Association of Researchers of the Ukrainian Famine Genocide of 1932-33.

2003: The Aviation Museum opens in Kyiv.

Oct. 1 1871: The Pavlo Galagan Collegium opens in Kyiv. In 1920 it is reorganized as a general education workers’ school.

1960: The Association for Cultural Relations with Ukrainians Abroad is founded in Kyiv.

Oct. 2 1942: The Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) adopts a resolution on the development of a partisan movement in Ukraine.

1990: Hunger-striking students in Kyiv demand the resignation of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR and the abolition of the Union agreement.

Oct. 3 1917: The All-Ukrainian Congress of Cossacks in Chyhyryn adopts its statute and elects a General Council headed by Pavlo Skoropadsky.

1973: A monument to the outstanding Ukrainian poet Lesia Ukrainka is unveiled in Kyiv.

Oct. 4 1890: The Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party, Ukraine’s first political party, is founded in Lviv.

1996: The South Ukrainian Economic Union is founded in the Crimea.

Oct. 5 1933: The People’s Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a resolution on the Berezil drama company, relieving Les Kurbas of his post as artistic director and manager.

1993: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Oct. 6 1648: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s rebel troops lay siege to Lviv.

2001: Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Alexander Kwasniewski of Poland open the European Collegium of Ukrainian and Polish Universities in Lublin.