Semen Goruk

Semen Vasyliovych Goruk (; 13 September 1873 – 1920) was a Ukrainian military commander who served as General Bulawa of the Ukrainian Galician Army, a rank equivalent to Chief of the General Staff, from 6 November 1918 to 10 December 1918. He was later captured by the Red Army and sent to Solovki prison camp, where he was executed.

Biography Semen Vasyliovych Goruk was born on 13 September 1873 in the town of Sniatyn in what was then the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria within Austria-Hungary. He graduated from a gymnasium in Kolomyia, and later from the University of Lviv. Prior to the outbreak of World War I he was a member of Ukrainian nationalist groups, including and the , and he was one of the main organisers of the Sokol movement in Galicia.

Following the beginning of the First World War, he joined the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces, becoming a kurin commander within the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. He fought at the , as well as during battles at and Dniestr and Zolota Lypa.

On 30 September 1916, he was captured by the Imperial Russian Army. He was released from his duties as General Bulawa on 10 December 1918, when he moved to the Secretariat of Military Affairs as a personnel officer. He was promoted on 1 January 1919 to an otaman, equivalent to the rank of major.