Taras

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 * image = Taras.png
 * image_size = 200px
 * name = Taras Borisov
 * office = Minister of Collective Agriculture
 * term_start1        = November 9 1200
 * term_end1          = June 1203{{refn|group=n|name=b|Borisov was reported missing following the Zernovoy Incident, but was never officially relieved of duty. Zinoviev, his deputy, has served in the position throughout his absense}}
 * predecessor1       = Sasha Potemkin
 * successor1         = Dimitri Zinoviev
 * native_name = Тарас Борисов
 * native_name_lang   = ru
 * birth_date = March 9 2061 AD
 * birth_place = Terra
 * alma_mater = Vavilov Astrobotanical College, Arkhangelsk State Technical (PhD)
 * party = PMCPN
 * otherparty = Narodnik Revolutionaries (suspected)
 * occupation = {{hlist|Botanist|adventurer|civil servant}}
 * citizenship = Eurasian PUS (21st century AD-Regression) Novokorjela (since 1200)

Taras "Tara" Borisov is a Cryon-Novokorjelan warlock, botanist and adventurer who previously served as the Minister of Collective Agriculture in Novokorjela from his awakening in 1200 to 1203, before having been displaced.

Pre-regression life and education
Taras was born on the continent of Eurasia, Terra on 9 March 2061 AD. He studied Astrobotany, becoming a Doctor of Philosophy in Botany and Astrobotany at Arkhangelsk State Technical University. After graduation, he signed onto the Rasvet (Russian: Рассвет) program in 2093 AD, during the period in which the First Eurasian Mars Command was dissolved but the Second Eurasian Mars Command had not yet been created. Rasvet, or Rassvet, was one of the first attempts to establish a permeant colony on Mars, 8 years after Eurasia was the first federation to land a man, Ivan Golovchenko, on Mars that would survive the return trip. As such, the now Interim Administration of the program aimed to send a forward landing party in order to create a suitable environment for Colonization.

As part of this forward party, Taras was placed in charge of securing a sufficiently sustainable food and water system to provide for the early stages of the Colony. Two months following his departure from Terra on 5 November 2093 AD, Taras would enter Cryogenic Sleep as was advised during missions to Mars. However, after a malfunction in the Capsule he was dormant in. Taras did not awaken during the ship's crash into what is now Lake Tsentara, remaining dormant for 1903 years, having been frozen during the Regression.

Post-regression
Following the success of the E-99 extraction mission, Mira Iliyasova and her team were successful in retrieving the capsule in which Taras was dormant in from Lake Tsentara after having utilised the Aether to locate it. While the capsule was first located on the 7th of July 1199, the lack of technological resources caused issue in both the transportation of the capsule and the awakening on its inhabitants. After several moths in a state of unconscious catalepsy, Taras was the last of those within his capsule to awake, first becoming aware of his surroundings on October 18th of the next year.

Taras, with his qualifications and expertise in the filed of Astrobotany, was quickly conscripted into the Central Council of Novokorjela, replacing the unpopular Sasha Potemkin as Minister of Collective Agriculture. Taras began criticize Potemkin's tenure as Minister shortly after he took office on November 9, 1200. He stated in a public address in Orlovgrad that:

"Considerable reform is not simply a choice, it is a necessity. What we have is a system very good at feeding some by sacrificing the grain of those who worked for it. Truly, it is a dark time in which anyone could find that satisfactory - especially an official in the ministry only successful in the reiteration of the apathy towards the agricultural labourer"