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Sich can mean one of several things:

ich is the administrative and military centre for Cossacks and especially the Zaporizhian Cossacks. It is derived from the Ukrainian word siktý, "to chop", meaning to clear a forest for an encampment, or to build a fortification
Fortification

Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defense in warfare and military bases. Humans have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs....
 with the trees that have been chopped down.

The Zaporizhian Sich
Zaporizhian Sich

Zaporizhian Sich original Ukrainian language name "Zaporizhska Sich'" was the center of the Zaporozhian Cossacks which was located on the Dnieper River in the Zaporizhia region of present-day Ukraine....
 was the fortified capital of the Zaporizhian Cossacks in the 16th to 18th century area of Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
 and was located on the Dnieper River
Dnieper River

The Dnieper River , is one of the major rivers in Europe that flows from Russia, through Belarus and Ukraine, to the Black Sea. Its total length is , of which lie within Russia, within Belarus, and within Ukraine....
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Sich can mean one of several things:

Military

Sich is the administrative and military centre for Cossacks and especially the Zaporizhian Cossacks. It is derived from the Ukrainian word siktý, "to chop", meaning to clear a forest for an encampment, or to build a fortification
Fortification

Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defense in warfare and military bases. Humans have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs....
 with the trees that have been chopped down.

The Zaporizhian Sich
Zaporizhian Sich

Zaporizhian Sich original Ukrainian language name "Zaporizhska Sich'" was the center of the Zaporozhian Cossacks which was located on the Dnieper River in the Zaporizhia region of present-day Ukraine....
 was the fortified capital of the Zaporizhian Cossacks in the 16th to 18th century area of Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
 and was located on the Dnieper River
Dnieper River

The Dnieper River , is one of the major rivers in Europe that flows from Russia, through Belarus and Ukraine, to the Black Sea. Its total length is , of which lie within Russia, within Belarus, and within Ukraine....
. The Sich Rada
Sich Rada

Sich Rada was the highest branch of government at Zaporizhian Host. The Rada was involved in legislative, executive and judicial matters. It was able to decided when to go to war and when to conclude a peace treaty....
 was the highest branch of government in the Zaporizhian Host or army of the Zaporizhian Cossacks. The Danubian Sich
Danubian Sich

The Danubian Sich was a fortified settlement of Zaporozhian Cossacks who settled in the territory of the Ottoman Empire after their previous host was disbanded and the Zaporizhian Sich was destroyed....
 was the fortified settlement of the Zaporozhian Cossacks who later settled in the Danube Delta
Danube Delta

The Danube river delta is the second largest delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent . The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Romania , while its northern part, on the left bank of the Chilia arm, is situated in Ukraine ....
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As well there were the following:
  • Polissian Sich (Polis’ka sich) — the name for the Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army
    Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army

    Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army aka Polissian Sich - UPA. aka Ukrainian Insurgent ArmyThe Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a paramilitary formation of Ukrainian nationalists, nominally proclaimed in Olevsk region in December 1941 by Taras Bulba-Borovets by renaming an existing military unit known from July 1941 as the UPA-Polissian Sich...
  • Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
    Ukrainian Sich Riflemen

    Ukrainian Sich Riflemen...
     (Ukrayíns’ki sichoví stril’tsí) — a Ukrainian
    Ukrainians

    Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....
     unit within the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, and later the regular military unit of the West Ukrainian People's Republic.
  • Sich Riflemen
    Sich Riflemen

    The Ukrainian Sich Riflemen were one of the regular military units of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic. The unit operated from 1917 to 1919 and was formed from Ukrainian soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army, local population and former commanders of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen in Galicia ....
     — one of the regular military units of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic
    Ukrainian People's Republic

    The Ukrainian People's Republic was a republic in part of the territory of modern Ukraine Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, eventually headed by Symon Petliura....
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Other meanings

  • "Sich a Getting Up Stairs
    Sich a Getting up Stairs

    "Sich a Getting Up Stairs" is an music of the United States song that dates to the early 1830s. It was in the repertoire of Thomas D. Rice and other early blackface performers....
    "     — an American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     song that dates to the early 1830s.
  • Motor-Sich
    Motor-Sich

    The Motor Sich Public Joint Stock Company in Zaporozhye is among the largest in the world and the only enterprise in Ukraine manufacturing engines for airplanes and helicopters as well as industrial gas turbine installations....
     — a Public Joint Stock Company in Zaporizhia
    Zaporizhia

    Zaporizhia is a city in south-central Ukraine, which rests on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the Capital city of the Zaporizhia Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Zaporizkyi Raion within the oblast....
    , Ukraine
    Ukraine

    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
     that manufactures engines for airplanes and helicopters.
  • Motor Sich Airlines — an airline based in Zaporizhia
    Zaporizhia

    Zaporizhia is a city in south-central Ukraine, which rests on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the Capital city of the Zaporizhia Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Zaporizkyi Raion within the oblast....
    , Ukraine
    Ukraine

    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
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  • Sich-1 — a Ukrainian Earth observation satellite
    Earth observation satellite

    Earth observation satellites are satellites specifically designed to observe Earth from orbit, similar toreconnaissance satellites but intended for non-military uses such as natural environmental monitoring, meteorology, map making etc....
  • Sich Ukrainian Scout organization