A Cossack host ( uk, козацьке військо, translit=kozatske viisko; russian: каза́чье во́йско, ''kazachye voysko''), sometimes translated as Cossack army, was an administrative subdivision of

Cossack The Cossacks , es, cosaco , et, Kasakad, cazacii , fi, Kasakat, cazacii , french: cosaques , hu, kozákok, cazacii , it, cosacchi , orv, коза́ки, pl, Kozacy , pt, cossacos , ro, cazaci , russian: казаки́ or ...

s in the Russian Empire. Earlier the term ''viisko'' ( host) referred to Cossack organizations in their historical territories, most notable being the Zaporozhian Host of Ukrainian Cossacks.

Russian Empire

Each Cossack host consisted of a certain territory with Cossack settlements that had to provide military regiments for service in the

Imperial Russian Army The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar ...

and for border patrol. Usually the hosts were named after the regions of their location. The '' stanitsa'', or village, formed the primary unit of this organization. In the Russian Empire (1721-1917), the Cossacks constituted eleven separate hosts, settled along the frontiers: * the Don Cossack Host * the Kuban Cossack Host * the Terek Cossack Host * the

Astrakhan Cossack Host Astrakhan Cossack Host (Russian: ''Астраханское казачье войско'') was a Cossack host of Imperial Russia drawn from the Cossacks of the Lower Volga region, who had been patrolling the banks of the Volga River from the tim ...

* the

Ural Cossack Host The Ural Cossack Host was a cossack host formed from the Ural Cossacks – those Eurasian cossacks settled by the Ural River. Their alternative name, Yaik Cossacks, comes from the old name of the river. They were also known by the names: *Rus ...

* the

Orenburg Cossack Host The Orenburg Cossack Host (russian: Оренбургское казачье войско) was a part of the Cossack population in pre-revolutionary Russia, located in the Orenburg province (today's Orenburg Oblast, part of the Chelyabinsk Obl ...

* Siberian Cossacks * the

Semiryechye Cossack Host Semirechyenskoe (Ukrainian Steppe Frontier) Cossack Host (russian: Семиреченское казачье войско) was a Cossack host in Imperial Russia, located in the Semirechyenskaya Oblast (today comprising most of Kyrgyzstan as wel ...

* the

Transbaikal Cossack Host Baikal Cossacks were Cossacks of the Transbaikal Cossack Host (russian: Забайка́льское каза́чье во́йско); a Cossack host formed in 1851 in the areas beyond Lake Baikal (hence, Transbaikal). Organisation The Transbaik ...

* the Amur Cossack Host * the

Ussuri Cossack Host Ussuri Cossack Host (russian: Уссури́йское каза́чье во́йско) was a Cossack Host in Imperial Russia, located in Primorye south of Khabarovsk along the Ussuri River, the Sungari River, and around the Khanka Lake. ...

There was also a small number of the Cossacks in Krasnoyarsk and

Irkutsk Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat language, Buryat and mn, Эрхүү, ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is ...

, who would form the Yenisey Cossack Host and the

Cossack Regiment of the Ministry of the Interior in 1917. Cossack hosts on Russian soil were disbanded in 1920, in the course of the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922 in a deliberate process of De-Cossackization to remove their identity. Cossacks who settled abroad continued to preserve the traditions of their hosts of origin (for example: the Triunited Don-Kuban-Terek Cossack Union (russian: Объединенный совет Дона, Кубани и Терека (ОСДКТ)) founded in Istanbul in January 1921).

List of hosts

* Amur Cossack Host (1854–) *

* Azov Cossack Host (1832–1862) * Baikal Cossack Host (1655-1920) * (1798-1865) *

Black Sea Cossack Host Black Sea Cossack Host (russian: Черномо́рское каза́чье во́йско; uk, Чорномо́рське коза́цьке ві́йсько ), also known as Chernomoriya (russian: Черномо́рия), was a Cossack host ...

(1787–1864) * Buh Cossack Host (1769–1817) * Caucasus Line Cossack Host (1832–1860) *

Danube Cossack Host The Danube Cossack Host ( ua, Дунайсько козацьке військо) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian Cossack Host formed in 1828 prior to the Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829), on the order of Nicholas I of Russia, Emperor Nicholas I from des ...

(1828–1868), an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks * Don Cossack Host (1570-) * Greben Cossacks Host (1711-) * Kuban Cossack Host (1860–1920) *

(1755–1920) *

(1867–1920) *

Siberian Cossack Host Siberian Cossacks were Cossacks who settled in the Siberian region of Russia from the end of the 16th century, following Yermak Timofeyevich's conquest of Siberia. In early periods, practically the whole Russian population in Siberia, especially t ...

(1582-1918) * Terek Cossack Host (1577–) *

(1851–1920) *

(1889–1922) *

Volga Cossack Host The Povolzyhe Cossacks or Volga Cossacks (russian: Волжские казаки) were free Cossack communities in Russia which were recorded in sources from the 16th century on. They inhabited the areas along the Volga River. The Volga Cossack ...

(1734–1777) * Zaporozhian Host (–1775) — the Ukrainian Cossacks who lived in Zaporizhia, in Central Ukraine during the 16th — 18th centuries.

References

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List of hosts

See also

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