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Also Known As	Kazak

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Zaporozhian Cossacks

Close-up of the Bohdan Khmelnytsky statue in Kiev, Ukraine, showing the figure in traditional attire with a feathered hat, looking sternly into the distance.

Yermak Timofeyevich

Yemelyan Pugachov

Illustration of Russian Cossack soldiers on horseback charging through a snowy Korean village, with fleeing villagers and startled animals, during the Russo-Japanese War.

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Key People

Stenka Razin, detail of an engraving from “A Relation Concerning the Particulars of the Rebellion Lately Raised in Muscovy by Stenka Razin” (London, 1672)

Stenka Razin

Cossack leader

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Aleksey Maksimovich Kaledin

Russian military officer

Mazepa, Ivan

Ivan Mazepa

Ukrainian Cossack leader

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Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov

Russian officer

Yermak Timofeyevich

Yermak Timofeyevich

Russian folk hero