This week in history

October 21: 1897. The Mykolayiv shipbuilding dockyard was opened.

1989. The Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society was founded in Lviv.

October 22: 1918. The Kamyanets Ukrainian State University was opened in Kamyanets-Podilsky.

1991. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered Ukraine’s Union of the Officers.

October 23: 1859. The first Ukrainian Sunday school was opened in Kyiv.

October 24: 1991. Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR passed a decision On Canceling the Sixth Article of the Constitution, which had enshrined the leading role of the Communist Party.

1994. During President Leonid Kuchma’s visit to Canada a treaty On Friendship and Cooperation between Ukraine and Canada was signed.

October 25: 1848. The Galician Ruthenian Matytsia Society was formed.

1938. The First Congress of Ukrainian Soviet Artists began, founding the Artists Union of Ukraine.

October 26: 1939. The People’s Assembly of Western Ukraine opened, at which it proclaimed Soviet power in Western Ukraine, its entering the Soviet Union, and reunification with the Ukrainian SSR.

1947. The biggest mass deportation of Ukrainians (about 78,000) began in Ukraine’s western regions.

October 27: 1659. Yury Khmelnytsky and the Muscovite government signed a treaty in Pereyaslav, the Pereyaslav Articles, regulating political and legal status of the Cossack Ukraine in the Muscovite state.

1882. The first appearance of the Ukrainian Touring Professional Theater founded by Marko Kropyvnytsky took place in Yelyzavethrad (now Kirovohrad).