{{Short description|Russian Imperial General}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox military person | name = Fyodor Yakovlevich Bursak | native_name = Фёдор Яковлевич Бурсак | image = Бурсак Федор Яковлевич(1750-1827), русский генерал, цвпорт XIXв. 01191 n.jpg <!--old: |изображение = Bursak FY.jpg --> | caption = | birth_date = 1750 | death_date = 1827 | death_place = | nickname = Ruthless general | branch = | service_years = 1768–1816 | rank = | unit = | commands = | battles = Russo-Circassian War<br>Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)<br> Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)<br> Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) | awards = Order of Saint Anna | relations = | other_work = }} '''Fyodor Yakovlevich Bursak''' (1750–1827) was a Russian Imperial General and an ''ataman'' (Cossack military chieftain) of the Black Sea Cossack Host.<ref>{{Cite web|title=1799г. Павел I своим рескриптом назначил Ф.Я. Бурсака атаманом ЧКВ|url=http://slavakubani.ru/chronicle/detail.php?ID=546&sphrase_id=773904|access-date=2020-03-11|publisher=Кубанское казачье войско}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Атаманы кубанского казачества|url=https://admkrai.krasnodar.ru/content/1216/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012063957/http://admkrai.krasnodar.ru/content/section/739/detail/23911/|archive-date=2011-10-12|access-date=2011-10-12|publisher=Администрации Краснодарского края}}</ref> Known as a ruthless general with no mercy, he took an active part in the Circassian genocide.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Richmond|first=Walter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LHlwZwpA70cC|title=The Circassian Genocide|date=April 9, 2013|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-6069-4}}</ref>
== Biography == Born in 1750 in the noble family of Antonovich in the Kharkiv region, he studied at Kiev.
He participated as an ordinary Cossack raider in the Russian-Turkish War of 1768–1774. His success in raids promoted him in ranks.
With the settlement of the Black Sea troops in the Kuban, on December 22, 1799, he was appointed ''ataman'' in the border with Circassia. He immediately organized a number of raids against the Circassians, and personally ordered his men to burn all Circassian villages they see, even if they are villages that are loyal to the Russian Empire.'''<ref name=":0" />'''
He died and was buried in 1827 near the military cathedral on the Fortress Square of the Yekaterinodar Fortress.<ref name=":0" />
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