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Ataman

Ataman (variants: wataman, vataman, otaman, Cyrillic: ?????? (Russian), ??????? (Russian, regional), ?????? (Ukrainian)) was a title of Cossack

Cossack

The term Cossacks is applied to specific militaristic communities of various ethnicities living in the southern steppe regions of Ukraine and Russia....
and haidamak leaders of various kinds. The term was also used for the leader of a fisherman

Fisherman

A fisherman or fisher is someone who gathers shellfish, or captures fish and other animals from a body of water. Worldwide, there are about 38 million Commercial fishing and Artisan fishing fishermen and fish farmers....
artel
Artel

Artel is a general term for various cooperative associations in Russia, historical and modern.Historically, artels were semi-formal associations for various enterprises: fishing, mining, commerce, of loaders, loggers, thieves, beggars, etc....
and of a band of robbers or thieves.

The etymology of the word "ataman" is disputed, see Hetman: Etymology

Hetman

Hetman was the title of the second highest military commander used in 15th to 18th century Poland, Ukraine and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, known from 1569 to 1795 as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth....
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Ataman (variants: wataman, vataman, otaman, Cyrillic: ?????? (Russian), ??????? (Russian, regional), ?????? (Ukrainian)) was a title of Cossack

Cossack

Fisherman

Hetman

Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks

Hetman was the title used by commanders of the Ruthenian Dnieper Cossacks from the end of the sixteenth century. The title hetman was adopted from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth....
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Among various types of the military grade of ataman were voisko ataman (????????? ??????), campaign ataman (???????? ??????), kosh ataman
Koshovyi Otaman

Koshovyi Otaman was the highest military ranks of the Zaporozhian Host Cossacks from the 16th century. It was elected by the elders of the Zaporozhian Host....
(??????? ??????), kuren (kurin) ataman (???????? ??????) as well as territorial leaders: okrug

Okrug

Okrug is an administrative division of some Eastern European Slavic peoples states. The word "okrug" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "district", or "region"....
ataman (???????? ??????), stanitsa

Stanitsa

Stanitsa is a village inside a Cossacks Cossack host . Stanitsas were the primary unit of Cossack hosts.Historically, the stanitsa was a unit of economic and political organisation of the Cossack peoples primarily in the southern regions of the Russian Empire. Much of the land was held in common by the stanitsa, subject to annual al...
ataman (????????? ??????), khutor

Khutor

Khutor or hutor is usually taken to refer to a single-smallholding rural settlement of Eastern Europe. The word originated in Ukraine, but later came to be applied to farmsteads in Russia and Kazakhstan....
ataman (????????? ??????).

Usually atamans were elected. However during campaigns they could be appointed. In that case the ataman was called nakaznoy ataman, (???????? ??????), i.e., acting or appointed ataman.

In the Cossack Hetmanate

Cossack Hetmanate

The Hetmanate or officially Viysko Zaporozke was a Cossack state in the central and north-eastern regions of Ukraine during 1649?1775. It came into existence as a result of the Khmelnytsky Uprising and the alliance of the registered Cossacks with the Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Sich and other segments of the Ukrainian populace....
leaders of non-Cossack military units (artillery

Artillery

Artillery is a military Combat Arms which employs any apparatus, machine, an assortment of tools or instruments, a system or systems used as weapons for the discharge of large projectiles in combat as a major contribution of fire power within the overall military capability of an armed force....
, etc.) were also called otamans.

20th century

Atamans were titles of supreme leaders of anti-Bolshevik

Bolshevik

Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxism Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....
Cossack armies during the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed and the Bolshevik party assumed power in Saint Petersburg....
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The head of the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic

Ukrainian People's Republic

The Ukrainian People's Republic was a republic in part of the territory of modern Ukraine Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, eventually headed by Symon Petliura....
, in particular, Symon Petliura, was called holovnyi otaman (???????? ??????, supreme otaman).