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Sydir Bilyi
Sydir Bilyi (1735–1788) was a Zaporozhian Cossack officer who, after the destruction of the Zaporozhian Sich in 1775, became the first ataman of the Host of Loyal Zaporozhians formed by Grigory Potemkin in 1787. He led the Cossacks in the Russo-Turkish War and was mortally wounded in 1788 in fighting near Ochakiv. The host later became the Black Sea Cossack Host.
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