Kremenchuk Regiment

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Kremenchuk Regiment Кременчуцький полк
Active	1661 - 1663[1]
Country	Cossack Hetmanate
Allegiance	Yakym Somko Petro Doroshenko Ivan Briukhovetsky
Type	Cossack Regiment
Role	Provide military support for Yakym Somko assent to power
Size	20 sotnias
Garrison/HQ	Kremenchuk, Ukraine
Commanders
Notable commanders	Kyrylo Andrievych Havrylo Dybovyk Kostiantyn Gavrylenko

The Kremenchuk Regiment (Ukrainian: Кременчуцький полк, translit. Kremenchuts’kyi polk) was one of ten territorial-administrative subdivisions of the Cossack Hetmanate. The regiment's capital was the city of Kremenchuk, now in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine.

The Kremenchuk Regiment was founded in 1661. The regiment was created by Yakym Somko in order to keep control over Poltavshchyna. Later the Regiment was loyal to Petro Doroshenko and after him to Ivan Briukhovetsky.

The Kremenchuk regiment was compromised of already existing sotnias of Chyhyryn, Poltava, Myrhorod, Lubny regiments. After its abolishment in 1663 all of the sotnias went back to their original regiments.^[2]

[edit] Structure

• Bahachanska (Velykobahachans'ka)
• Balakliiska
• Bilotserkivska
• Birkivska
• Chyhyryn-Dibrovska
• Hovtvianska
• Horodychshenska
• Kyshenkivska
• Kobeliatska
• Lukimska
• Maksymivska
• Manzheliivska
• Novosanzharska
• Omelnytska
• Ostapivska
• Perevolochanska
• Pototska
• Ustynyvtska
• Veremiivska
• Zhovnynska

[edit] Commanders

• Kyrylo Andrievych - 1661
• Havrylo Dybovyk (Dybovytskyi) - August 25, 1661 – March 20, 1662
• Kostiantyn Gavrylenko - March 27, 1662 – April 15, 1662
• Sava Kanivets- April 22, 1662 - April 26, 1662^[3]
• Kudlai - August 6, 1664

[edit] References