This week in history 

October 13, 1948: Dashava-Kyiv gas pipeline is completed. October 13, 1969: World War II memorial to fallen Soviet soldiers and partisans is dedicated in Poltava. October 14, 1942: the UPA Ukrainian Insurgent Army is founded. October 14, 1943: Zaporizhzhia is cleared of the Nazis. October 15, 1926: Russian Drama Theater (named for Lesia Ukrainka in 1939) opens in Kyiv. October 5, 1990: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. October 16, 1596: the Church Union of Brest is confirmed. October 16, 1918: Hetman Skoropadsky issues an edict reinstating the Cossacks. October 17, 1676: Poland and Turkey sign the Treaty of Zhuravne whereby Turkey retained Podillia and part of Right-Bank Ukraine. October 17, 1989: the first USSR Krok animated cartoon festival begins in Kyiv. October 18, 1917: the First All-Ukrainian National Congress opens in Kyiv. October 18, 1945: Uzhhorod University is founded. October 19, 1946: Taras Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theater of Kyiv hosts the premiere of Mykola Lysenko's opera, Taras Shevchenko. October 19, 1995: CIS representatives in Minsk sign an agreement On Coordinated Efforts against Organized Crime.