Vasyl Sydor | |
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Native name | Василь Сидор |
Nickname(s) | Shelest, Vyshyty, Konrad, Zov |
Born | Spasiv, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) | 24 February 1910
Died | 14 April 1949 Rozhniativ Raion, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) | (aged 39)
Allegiance | |
Rank | Colonel |
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Battles / wars |
Vasyl Sydor (Ukrainian: Василь Сидор; 24 February 1910 – 14 April 1949) was a colonel of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), political activist, soldier of the Nachtigall Battalion, commandant of Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201, vice-commander of UPA and leader of UPA-West for Eastern Galicia during World War II. Sydor was killed in combat with Soviet troops in the Limnytsia river valley.[1]