October 17: 1676. Poland and Turkey signed a peace treaty according to which Turkey retained Podillia and a part of Right-Bank Ukraine.
1961. The XXII CPSU Congress opened, authorizing the removal of Iosif Stalin’s body from the Lenin Mausoleum and approving a new Party Platform including the Twelve Commandments for Builders of Communism.
October 18: 1617. Cossack and Polish representatives signed a treaty according to which unregistered Cossacks were to return to serfdom under their former Polish lords.
1917. The First All-Ukrainian National Congress was opened in Kyiv.
October 19: 1653. The Muscovite Tsar’s embassy headed by Buturlin left for Pereyaslav to administer to the Zaporozhzhian Host the oath of loyalty to the Tsar.
1848. A congress of Ruthenian scholars was held in Lviv.
October 20: 1868. The first private commercial bank was founded in Kyiv.
1924. The first Ukrainian radio station was founded in Kharkiv.
October 21: 1897. The Black Sea Shipbuilding Yard began work in Mykolayiv.
1941. Soviet forces abandoned Stalino (now Donetsk).
October 22: 1920. Makhno’s anarchist army began its raid on the rear of Baron Wrangel’s White Army in order to take possession of the Crimea.
1991. The Ukrainian Ministry of Justice registered the Union of Officers of Ukraine.
October 23: 1859. The first Sunday school was opened in Kyiv.
1990. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian SSR repealed Article Six of the Constitution that had enshrined the leading role of the Communist Party.
