Ivan Zolotarenko

**Ivan Zolotarenko**
Ivan Zolotarenko
	18th century depiction of Ivan Zolotarenko
Native name	Іван Золотаренко
Nickname	Werewolf
Born	Unknown; Korsun, Kiev Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Died	17 October 1655; Bykhaw, Vitebsk Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Allegiance	Cossack Hetmanate (1652–1655); Tsardom of Russia (1654–1655)
Service years	1652–1655
Rank	Acting hetman
Commands	Nizhyn Regiment
Conflicts	See list Thirty Years' War Siege of Dunkirk (1646) (?); ; Khmelnytsky Uprising Battle of Batih; ; Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) Tsar Alexei's campaign Siege of Smolensk (1654); Zolotorenko's Belarusian campaign Siege of Gomel; Battle of Vilnius (1655); Siege of Stary Bykhaw (1654–1655) (DOW); ; ; ; ;

Ivan Nikiforovich Zolotarenko (Ukrainian: Іван Никифорович Золотаренко; Russian: Иван Никифорович Золотаренко; Belarusian: Іван Нічыпаравіч Залатарэнка; Polish: Iwan Mykyforowycz Zołotarenko; Lithuanian: Ivanas Nikiforovičius Zolotarenko; died 1655) was a Zaporozhian Cossack acting hetman of Belarus and polkovnyk (colonel) of the Nizhyn Regiment. A close associate and brother-in-law of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, he fought against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and supported alliance with Tsardom of Russia during the Pereiaslav Rada in 1654.