Vasyl Sydor

Vasyl Sydor
Native name
Василь Сидор
Nickname(s)Shelest, Vyshyty, Konrad, Zov
Born(1910-02-24)24 February 1910
Spasiv, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)
Died14 April 1949(1949-04-14) (aged 39)
Rozhniativ Raion, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Allegiance
RankColonel
Unit
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]