Ataman

Ataman Ukrainian отаман / Otaman ( from turkotatarischen noun Ata = " father " and the suffix -man = " company ", also Turkish: ataman ) or the Polish Hetman was with the Cossacks in the Polish-Lithuanian name of a military rank, even their freely elected leader. After the partitions of Poland, this title of Catherine II of Russia was abolished.

Ataman was the highest rank in the Russian Cossacks. The Ukrainian Cossacks this was for the polish organized Cossack hetman, while the leader of the resident in the steppe Cossacks aware and called in distinction to the Cossack hierarchy in the hinterland Otaman.

List of all Ukrainian Atamans

• Predslaw Ljandkorskyj 1516-1528
• Ostap Daschkewytsch 1528-1533
• Dmytro Wyschneweckyj called Bajda 1550-1564
• Birulja Madskyj (along with Karpo, Andrusch, read results, Bilous, LJAH ) 1568-1569
• Foka Pokotylo 1574
• Samijlo Kischka 1574-1575
• Demyan Barabasch 1575
• Bohdan Ruszunskyj 1575-1576
• Pawljuk 1576
• Jakiw Chess 1576-1578
• Ivan Pidkowa 1577-1578
• Lukyan Tschornynskyj 1578 and 1586
• January Oryschowskyl 1580 and 1585
• Samijlo Zborowskyj 1581
• Bohdan Makoschynskyj 1584, 1586 and 1594
• Myhajlo Ruszunskyj, Kyryk Ruszunskyj 1585
• Zahar Kulaha 1585
• Potrebatskyj 1588
• Wojtyh Tschanowytskyj 1590
• Kryschtof Kosynskyj 1591-1593
• Hryhorij Loboda 1594-1596
• Seweryn Nalywajko 1594-1596
• Fedor Polous 1595 and 1598
• Matwij Schaula 1596
• Kaspar Pidwysotskyj 1596
• Krempskyj 1596
• Kryschtof Netschkowskyj 1596
• Tychin Bajbuza 1597
• Semen Skalozub 1599
• Samijlo Kischka 1600-1602
• Havrilo Krutnewytsch 1602
• Ivan Kutskowytsch 1602-1603
• Ivan Kosyj 1603
• Hryhorij Izapowytsch 1606
• Zborowskyj 1606
• Olewtschenko 1606
• Kalenyk Andrijewytsch 1609-1610 and 1624-1625
• Hryhorij Tyskynewytsch 1610
• Petro Sahajdatschnyj 1614-1622
• Burdylo 1616
• Dmytro Barabasch 1617
• Myhailo Skubka 1618
• Jakiw Nerodytsch - Borodawka 1619-1621
• Petro Odynets 1620
• Olyfij Holub 1622-1623
• Myhailo Doroshenko 1623-1628
• Hrytsko Chorny 1624 and 1628-1630
• Prskyj, Szmajlo 1625
• Taras Trjasylo 1630
• Tymofij Orendarenko 1630-1631 and 1632-1633
• Ivan Petraszatskyj - Kulaha 1631-1632
• Arlam 1632
• Andrij Didenko 1632
• Hyrja Kanawets 1633
• Ivan Sulyma 1633-1635
• Wasyl Tomylenko 1636-1637
• Sawa Kononowytsch 1637
• Pawlo Pawljyk 1637
• Ilya Karaimowytsch 1638
• Jatsko Ostrjatyn 1638
• Dmytro Hunja 1638
• Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1648-1657
• Lutaj 1652
• Paschko 1654 and 1658
• Ivan Wyhowskyj 1657-1659
• Powlo Homin 1657-1658
• Jakiw Barabasch 1657-1658
• Lesko Schkura 1658 and 1666
• Ivan Bezpalyj 1659
• Yurii Khmelnytsky 1659-1663 and 1677-1681
• Petro Suchowiy 1660
• Ivan Brjuchowetskyj 1661
• Ivan Welytschko - Bosowskyj 1662
• Jakym Somko 1663
• Saschko Turowets 1663-1664
• Ivan Sirko 1663-1664 and 1673-1680
• Pawlo Teterja 1663-1665
• Ivan Brjuchowetskyj 1663-1668
• Ivan Scherbyna 1664
• Danylo Ermolenko 1665
• Stepan Opara 1665
• Petro Doroshenko 1665-1669
• Ivan Zdan 1666-1667
• Ostap Wasjutenko 1667
• Ivan Belkowskyj 1668
• Stepan Wdowytschenko 1668
• Petro Suchowij 1668-1669
• Mykhailo Khanenko 1669-1674
• Demyan Mnohohrischnyj 1669-1672
• Lukasch Martinovich 1669 and 1671
• Hryhoriy Pelech 1770
• Ewsij damage Schola 1672
• Ivan Samojlowytsch 1672-1687
• Lukyan Andrijiw 1672-1673
• Wasyl Krylowskyj 1676
• Ivan Stjahailo 1680-1681
• Trofym Woloschanin 1681-1682
• Hryhorij Jeremejew 1682-1684
• Hryhorij Sahajdatschnyj 1686
• Fedor Iwanyk 1686
• Samus Samijlo 1692-1704
• Ivan Mazepa 1687-1709
• Ivan Skoropadskyj 1709-1722
• Ivan Jakovlevic Khanzhonkov / Hanschonkoff 1690 -?
• Pylyp Orlyk 1710-1742
• Pawlo Polubotok 1722-1724
• Danylo Apostol 1727-1732
• Kyrylo Rosumowskyj 1750-1763
• Petro Kalnyschewskyj 1764-1765

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