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	Topics Ataman Topic Home Ataman (variants: wataman, vataman, otaman, Cyrillic: ?????? (Russian), ??????? (Russian, regional), ?????? (Ukrainian)) was a title of CossackCossack Cossacks are a group of several peoples living in the southern steppe regions of Eastern Europe and Asiatic Russia, famous f... and haidamak leaders of various kinds. The term was also used for the leader of a fishermanFisherman A fisherman , is a person who engages in the activity of fishing.... artelArtel ----Artel is a general term for various cooperative associations in Russia, historical and modern.... and of a band of robbers or thieves. The etymology of the word "ataman" is disputed, see . During certain periods the supreme leader of Ukrainian Cossacks was called HetmanHetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks Hetman was the title used by commanders of the Ukrainian Cossacks since the end of the sixteenth century.... . Among various types of the military grade of ataman were voisko ataman (????????? ??????), campaign ataman (???????? ??????), kosh atamanKoshovyi Otaman Koshovyi Otaman was the highest military ranks of the Zaporizhian Cossacks from the 16th century.... (??????? ??????), kuren ataman (???????? ??????) and . Territorial leaders: okrugOkrug Okrug is a term to denote a subnational entity in some Eastern European, slavic states.... ataman (???????? ??????), stanitsaStanitsa Overview Stanitsa is a village inside a Cossack host or Cossack voisko.... ataman (????????? ??????), khutorKhutor Khutor or hutor is usually taken to refer to a single-homestead rural settlement of Eastern Europe.... ataman (????????? ??????). Usually atamans were elected. However during campaigns they could be appointed. In this case he was called nakaznoy ataman, (???????? ??????), i.e., acting or appointed ataman. In the Cossack HetmanateCossack Hetmanate The Hetmanate was a semiautonomous Cossack suzerainty in Left-bank Ukraine, owing fealty to the tsar of Muscovy.... leaders of non-Cossack military units were also called otamans. 20th century Atamans were titles of supreme leaders of anti-BolshevikBolshevik Bolsheviks were members of the Bolshevik faction of the Marxist Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party.... Cossack armies during the Russian Civil WarRussian Civil War The Russian Civil War was fought from 1917 to 1922.... . The head of the army of the Ukrainian People's RepublicUkrainian People's Republic Ukrainian People's Republic, also sometimes translated as Ukrainian National Republic, abbreviated UNR, was a re... , in particular, Symon Petliura, was called holovnyi otaman (???????? ??????, supreme otaman).