Sich (disambiguation)

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A sich is an administrative and military center for Cossacks.

Sich can also refer to:

Volunteer organizations

  • Sich movement, a Ruthenian national movement of Austria-Hungary existed in 1861-1947; influenced the creation of several other Ukrainian organization of Central and Eastern Europe as well as the North America
  • Sports Society Sich, a Ukrainian sports volunteer organization of firefighters (est. 1902)
    • Sich (scouting) (Січ), a Ukrainian Scout organization
    • Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (Ukrayínski sichoví striltsí) — a Ukrainian unit within the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, based on volunteer sportsmen of the Sports Society Sich; later it laid a base for creation of the Ukrainian Galician Army
    • Polissian Sich (Polisska sich), a name for the Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army (World War II) in the region of Polissya
    • Carpathian Sich of the National Defense Organization (Karpatska sich) — a Ukrainian unit in Carpatho-Ukraine (1938-39)

Other

  • Sich, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
  • Motor Sich, a company in Zaporizhia, Ukraine that manufactures engines for airplanes and helicopters
  • Motor Sich Airlines, an airline based in Zaporizhia, Ukraine
  • Sich-1, a Ukrainian Earth observation satellite
  • Sich a Getting Up Stairs, an American song from the early 1830s

Acronym

  • Symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage
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