September 30: 1876. The Kyivska starovyna [Kyiv Antiquities] magazine first published the biography of Ukrainian poet and philosopher Hryhory Skovoroda.
1992. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Association of Researchers of the Ukrainian Manmade Famine Genocide of 1932- 1933.
October 1: 1871. The Pavlo Halahan Collegium was opened in Kyiv, which in 1920 became a general education working school.
1926. The Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater, now bearing the name of Taras Shevchenko, was founded.
October 2: 1942. The Politburo of the VKP(b) Central Committee passed a decision On Developing the Partisan Movement in Ukraine.
1990. Students’ hunger strike began in Kyiv for the resignation of the head of the Council of Ministers of Ukrainian SSR and against signing the new Union Treaty.
October 3: 1917. The All-Ukrainian Cossacks’ Congress began in Chyhyryn, ratifying this organization’s statute and electing its General Rada headed by Hetman Skoropadsky.
1973. A monument to the renowned Ukrainian poet Lesia Ukrayinka was unveiled in Kyiv.
October 4: 1890. The Russian-Ukrainian Radical Party, the first Ukrainian political party, was founded in Lviv.
1996. The South Ukrainian Economic Union was created in the Crimea.
October 5: 1933. The People’s Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR passed a decision on the Berezil Theater, discharging Les Kurbas (later shot) from the post of its artistic director.
1993. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Communist Party of Ukraine.
October 6: 1648. The siege of Lviv by Bohdan Khmelnytsky insurgent army began.
1918., The opening ceremony took place at the Kyiv State Ukrainian University.
