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Dovbush (Довбуш) Oleksa Vasilievich
(1700—1745)

A Ukrainian Robin Hood, chief of Carpathian opryshoks. He became an outlaw with his brother Ivan and led a band of 30–50 men. Local peasants admired him. What Dovbush took from the landlords, rentiers, usurers, merchants, nobles, and rich Jews, he gave to the poor. His band was active mostly in the Hutsul region and in Pokutia, but sometimes... More...

Ukraine, 2000, Oleksa Dovbush

USSR, 1974, Dovbush cavern near Yaremcha