Bortchane — residents of the city of Bor and the surrounding lands, such as the settlements of Tolokontsevo and Neklyudovo; in the administrative sense — the entire population of Borsky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
The correct term for a man is borchanin, for a woman — borchanka.
Notable Bortchane
- Shakhtarin Albert Ivanovich — USSR Master of Sports, world champion in weightlifting among veterans.
- Selivanov Andrey Pavlovich — cosmonaut.
- Yevgeny Arkadyevich Negin — theoretical physicist, designer of nuclear warhead models, director and chief designer of Russian Federal Nuclear Center — VNIIEF in the city of Arzamas-16 (city of Sarov) from 1978 to 1987.
- Shiganov Pavel — RSFSR cross-country skiing champion.
- Eduard Ergartovich Rossel — Russian statesman and political figure; head of administration in 1991–1993, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region in 1995–2009.
- Vyacheslav Dmitrievich Zudov — USSR pilot-cosmonaut.
- Pugachev Vladimir Nikolaevich (b. 1969) — Russian landscape painter.