September 2: 1913. The First All-Russian Olympiad opened in Kyiv.
1930. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR approved a decision On Administrative Territorial Reform, which liquidated the okruh and made a transition to a two-level management system (oblast-district).
September 3: 1838. The Institute for Noble Girls was opened in Kyiv.
1993. Presidents Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine and Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Federation signed a protocol On Settling the Problems of the Black Sea Navy.
September 4: 1928. The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR approved the new Skrypnyk or Kharkiv Ukrainian orthography, which was used from January 1, 1929, until banned in 1933.
1991. The national blue-and-yellow flag was raised over the Verkhovna Rada building.
September 5: 1906. The first mass pilgrimage of Galician residents to the Holy land began, headed by Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky.
1990. An International Symposium on the Manmade Famine of 1932- 1933 in Ukraine opened in Kyiv.
September 6: 1946. The Council of Ministers of Ukrainian SSR approved a decision On Founding the State Institute of the Applied Arts.
1994. Chairman of the People’s Republic of China Jiang Zemin began his visit to Ukraine during which Ukrainian-Chinese declarations were signed.
September 7: 1891. First Ukrainian immigrants arrived in Canada.
1990. The Zoloty Homin [Golden Echo] First International Festival of Ukrainian Poetry began in Kyiv. September 8. Day of the Ukrainian Cinema.
1989. The founding meeting of the Popular Movement (Rukh) of Ukraine opened in Kyiv.
