This week in history

Oct. 13 1914: Count Bobrinsky, Governor General of Halychyna, bans the distribution of Ukrainian books.

Oct. 14 Ukrainian Cossacks Day 1919: The Directorate and the army swear allegiance to the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) in Kamianets-Podilsky.

Oct. 15 1926: The Russian Drama Theater (known as the Lesia Ukrainka Russian Drama Theater since 1939) opens in Kyiv.

Oct. 16 1890: The Russian-Ukrainian Radical Party is founded in Lviv.

Oct 17 1989: Krok, the first all-Union festival of animated cartoons, is launched in Kyiv.

Oct. 18 2001: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes the new bill “On the Election of People’s Deputies of Ukraine.”

Oct. 19 1653: Envoys from Muscovy, led by Vasilii Buturlin, leave for Periaslav to accept the Zaporozhian Host’s oath of allegiance to the tsar.