Taras Bulba-Borovets

Taras Dmytrovych Borovets (Ukrainian: Тарас Дмитрович Борове́ць; March 9, 1908 – May 15, 1981) was a Ukrainian nationalist commander during World War II who founded and led the Polissian Sich partisan group, which was later renamed the Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army (UPRA). His forces initially collaborated with German forces against the Soviet Union at the start of the German invasion, but later entered into conflict with them.

He adopted the nom de guerre Taras Bulba and is commonly known as Taras Bulba-Borovets. The pseudonym was taken from the protagonist of the eponymous novel by Nikolai Gogol, a Ukrainian-born writer of the Russian literary tradition.