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Sotnyk (; ), was a military rank among the Ukrainian Cossack
Cossack

The term Cossacks is applied to specific militaristic communities of various ethnicities living in the southern steppe regions of Ukraine and Russia....
 starshyna (officers) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Ukrainian Insurgent Army

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a group of Ukrainian nationalism Partisans who engaged in a series of guerrilla conflicts during the World War II....
. A sotnyk was a leader of a military unit (a sotnia
Sotnia

Sotnia was a traditional division of the Cossacks regiments from earliest records of the Zaporizhian Sich, and means 'a hundred'.During the Cossack service in the Imperial Russian Army the typical regiment had five sotnias or squadrons....
), nominally a company
Company (military unit)

A company is a military unit, typically consisting of 75-200 soldiers. Most companies are formed of three to five platoons although the exact number may vary by country, unit type, and structure....
 of a hundred men. The word is sometimes translated as captain
Captain (Land)

The army rank of Captain is an officer rank historically corresponding to command of a company of soldiers. The rank is also used by some air forces and Marine ....
, however the transliteration is also in common usage, for the sake of the historical and social context.

Holders of the rank also served as leaders of territorial units.






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Sotnyk (; ), was a military rank among the Ukrainian Cossack
Cossack

The term Cossacks is applied to specific militaristic communities of various ethnicities living in the southern steppe regions of Ukraine and Russia....
 starshyna (officers) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Ukrainian Insurgent Army

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a group of Ukrainian nationalism Partisans who engaged in a series of guerrilla conflicts during the World War II....
. A sotnyk was a leader of a military unit (a sotnia
Sotnia

Sotnia was a traditional division of the Cossacks regiments from earliest records of the Zaporizhian Sich, and means 'a hundred'.During the Cossack service in the Imperial Russian Army the typical regiment had five sotnias or squadrons....
), nominally a company
Company (military unit)

A company is a military unit, typically consisting of 75-200 soldiers. Most companies are formed of three to five platoons although the exact number may vary by country, unit type, and structure....
 of a hundred men. The word is sometimes translated as captain
Captain (Land)

The army rank of Captain is an officer rank historically corresponding to command of a company of soldiers. The rank is also used by some air forces and Marine ....
, however the transliteration is also in common usage, for the sake of the historical and social context.

Holders of the rank also served as leaders of territorial units. In the Cossacks' semi-military society of the Zaporozhian Host
Zaporozhian Host

The Zaporozhian Cossacks were Cossacks who lived in Zaporizhia , in Central Ukraine. The Zaporozhian Host grew rapidly in the 15th century by serfs fleeing the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth....
, 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....
, and Sloboda Ukraine
Sloboda Ukraine

Sloboda Ukraine or Slobozhanshchyna was a historical region which developed and flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries on the southwestern frontier of the Tsardom of Russia....
, territories were organized along the lines of military organization and commanded by officers. During the Khmelnytskyi Uprising and in the Cossack Hetmanate, sotnyks were leaders of territorial subdivisions also called sotnyas. Before 1967, a sotnyk was elected by the Cossacks of the sotnya, and then approved by the regimental military council (the starshyna).

In Bulgarian the word stotnik (sto - literally "hundred"; nik - in the case "the men of") was used for the commander of a military or administrative subdivision of a hundred men. Medieval military rank.