Following the title of hetmans of Poland and Lithuania, at the end of 16th century commanders of the Cossacks were also called Hetmans (or atamans).

From 1648 Bohdan Khmelnytsky uprising, Hetman was the head of the Cossack state. Cossack hetmans had very broad powers and acted as heads of the Cossack state, their supreme military commanders, the top legislators (by issuing administrative decrees).

After the split of the Ukraine along the Dnieper River by the Polish-Russian Treaty of Andrusovo 1667, Ukrainian Cossacks (and Cossack Hetmans) are known as Left-bank Cossacks and Right-bank Cossacks.

In Russia, the office of Cossack Hetman was abolished by Catherine II of Russia in 1764.

• Kryshtof Kosynsky
• Severyn Nalivaiko
• Petro Konashevych was a sahaidachny who led successful campaigns against the Tatars and the Turks, aided the Polish army at Moscow in 1618 and at the Battle of Khotyn in 1621. He also saw Cossack interests in the Ukrainian independence fom Poland.
• Taras Fedorovych
• Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1648-1657) was the first Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate.
• Ivan Vyhovsky (1657-1659)
• Yurii Khmelnytsky (1659-1663)
• Pavlo Teteria (1663-1665)
• Petro Doroshenko (1663-1676)
• Ivan Mazepa (1687-1709)
• Ivan Skoropadsky (1709-1722)
• Danylo Apostol (1727-1734)
• Kyryl Rozumovsky(1734-1764)

See also

• Bulawa
• Hetmans of Poland and Lithuania
• Atamans of the Don Cossacks
• History of Cossacks

External links

• Encyclopedia of Ukraine