Kremenchuk Regiment

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 comprised 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]

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