October 9: 1655. Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s army defeated the Poles at Horodok.
1991. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Union of Youth Organizations of Ukraine.
October 10: 1932. The Dnipro Hydroelectric Station was commissioned in Zaporizhzhia.
1973. The Politburo of the Communist Party of Ukraine Central Committee approved a secret decision envisioning a number of repressive actions against unregistered religious sects.
October 11: 1653. The Moscow Assembly of the Land ratified a decision on taking the Zaporozhzhian Army under the protection of the Russian Tsar.
1921. The All-Ukrainian Church Council started its work in Kyiv, establishing the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
October 12: 1920. An agreement was signed in Riga on an armistice and preliminary peace conditions between Russian and Ukrainian SSR, on the one hand, and Poland on the other.
1960. Nikita Khrushchev pounded his shoe at the tribune during his speech at the UN General assembly.
October 13: 1992. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appointed Leonid Kuchma prime minister.
October 14: 1919. In Kamyanets-Podilsky the Directory, government, and army swore their allegiance to the UNR.
1943. Zaporizhzhia was taken from the Germans.
October 15: 1925. Tryzub, a social, political, cultural, historical journal, and unofficial organ of the UNR government in exile, was first published in Paris.
1926. The Russian Drama Theater, now the Lesia Ukrayinka National Academy Theater of Russian Drama, was opened in Kyiv.
