October 12. 1920. Soviet Russia and Ukraine, on the one hand, and Poland on the other signed an agreement on an armistice and preliminary peace conditions in Riga.
1960. Nikita Khrushchev pounded his shoe at the tribune during his speech at the UN General Assembly.
October 13. 1914. Russian Military Governor of Galicia General Count Bobrynsky issued an order banning the dissemination of Ukrainian books.
1992. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine confirmed Leonid Kuchma as prime minister of Ukraine.
October 14. Day of the Ukrainian Cossacks. 1919. The Ukrainian Directory, government, and army swore allegiance to the UNR in Kamyanets-Podilsky.
1942. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was created.
October 15. 1926. A Russian Dramatic Theater (since 1939 named for Lesia Ukrayinka) was opened in Kyiv.
1944. Zaporizhzhia was taken from the Nazis. October 16. 1890. The Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party was established in Lviv.
1917. The All-Ukrainian Free Cossacks’ Congress started its work in Chyhyryn, electing its General Rada headed by Pavlo Skoropadsky.
October 17. 1676. Poland and Turkey signed the Peace of Zhuravne, whereby Turkey retained Podillia and a part of Right-Bank Ukraine.
1961. The XXII CPSU Congress was opened, approving the Party’s new Statute, Program, and Twelve Commandments of Builders of Communism.
October 18. 1596. The Union of Brest was proclaimed, creating the Uniate Church in Belarus and Ukraine.
1995. Ukraine joined the Council of Europe.
