19 July] 1908 – 15 April 1974) was one of the leaders of Soviet partisan movement in Ukraine and western Russia during World War II.

19 July] 1908 to a Russian peasant family in Yarushki, Vyatka Governorate (now part of Izhevsk, Udmurtia);[1] he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1932 and the NKVD in 1938.

A few months after the German invasion of USSR in the autumn of 1941, Saburov organized first guerrilla units in Bryansk, Oryol and Sumy regions occupied by the enemy.

His partisan unit numbered around 1800 men and during the winter of 1941-42 effectively harassed German troops operating behind the enemy lines.

Together with Sydir Kovpak he played a key role in the leadership of partisan movement in Ukraine.