Tugarin — Russian fairy tale character

Tugarin is a mythical creature in East European bylinas and fairy tales, which personifies evil and cruelty and appears in a dragon-like form.
Tugarin, Serpent Tugarin, Serpent Tugaretin, Tugarin Zmeevich, Serpent Tugarishche, etc. - an evil hero in Russian epics and fairy tales, an opponent of Russian heroes (Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich). The main text about Tugarin is an epic about the fight between Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin in its various versions.