This week in history

October 26 1922. The Russian Council of People's Commissars passed a decree to mint the chervonets (ten ruble) gold piece.

1947. The most massive postwar deportation of about 7 million Western Ukrainians began.

October 27 1882. Yelizavethrad saw the first show by the Ukrainian traveling professional theater founded by M. Kropyvnytsky.

1984. The Baikal-Amur Railway was opened for regular use.

October 28 1944. Soviet troops completed clearing the German Nazis out of Ukraine.

1989. The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR passed the law on the Official Status of the Ukrainian Language.

October 29 1672. The Buchach Peace Treaty on the division of Ukraine between Poland and Turkey was signed.

1880. The first blast furnace was commissioned at the Luhansk Steel Mill.

October 30 1941. The Soviet defense of Sevastopol began.

1964. A monument to the Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko was unveiled in Lviv.

October 31 1848. Lviv hosted the first congress of Ukrainian figures of science and culture called the Assembly of Ruthenian Scholars.

1932. USSR Prime Minister Vyacheslav Molotov was appointed head of a special commission on grain requisitions in Ukraine and took personal charge of the seizures of foodstuffs leading to the Manmade Ukrainian Famine of 1932.

1995. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a law on Ukraine's joining the Council of Europe Charter.

November 1 1939. The USSR Supreme Soviet passed the law on Western Ukraine's membership in the USSR and inclusion in the Ukrainian SSR.

1991. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the Declaration of the Rights of National Minorities.