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10 October

• Mykhailo Dray-Khmara, real surname Dray, Ukrainian neoclassical poet, translator, literary critic and Slavic teacher, was born (1889/10/10 – 1939/01/19).

• Dnipro hydroelectric power plant named after Lenin was launched in Zaporizhzhia (1932).

• The Presidency of the Soviet Union Verkhovna Rada adopted a decree on the founding of the order Bogdan Khmelnitsky of I., II. and III. degree (1943).