General Officer Staff ( uk, Генеральна старшина, translit=Heneralna starshyna) was a council of high-ranking officers who advised to

Hetman ( uk, гетьман, translit=het'man) is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders. Used by the Czechs in Bohemia since the 15th century. It was the title of the second-highest military co ...

on all affairs.123 It was the highest state administration of

Cossack Hetmanate The Cossack Hetmanate ( uk, Гетьманщина, Hetmanshchyna; or ''Cossack state''), officially the Zaporizhian Host or Army of Zaporizhia ( uk, Військо Запорозьке, Viisko Zaporozke, links=no; la, Exercitus Zaporoviensis) ...

. General officers took part in the General Military Council and along with colonels composed the Council of Officers. In a peacetime the general officers acted as ministers. General officers took part in the General Military Council and along with colonels composed the

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. It was created in 1648 and existed after the liquidation of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1764 until 1782. In an absence of a hetman, any members of the staff could have performed functions of the

acting hetman Acting Hetman or Appointed Hetman ( uk, Наказний гетьман) was a title during the 17th, and 18th centuries, in the Cossack Hetmanate. The acting hetman was the governing authority in the Cossack Hetmanate temporarily substituted for th ...

. General officers were headed by the

Hetman of Zaporizhian Host The Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host ( uk, Гетьман Війська Запорозького, la, Cosaccorum Zaporoviesium Supremus Belli Dux) was the head of state of the Cossack Hetmanate in what is now Ukraine. The office was disestablishe ...

. Aside of General Officers Staff there also were Regimental and Company officers staffs as part of administrative division of the

.Cossack starshyna
at the

Encyclopedia of Ukraine The ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' ( uk, Енциклопедія українознавства, translit=Entsyklopediia ukrainoznavstva), published from 1984 to 2001, is a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies. Development The work was creat ...

All officers were known as ''starshyna'' which literally means a senior. In charge of regiments stood colonel ( uk, полковник, translit=polkovnyk) and in charge of companies stood captain ( uk, сотник, translit=sotnyk). The staff consisted of nine members: * Quartermaster general, * two Judge advocate generals – General Military Court, * Scribe general (pysar) – General Military Chancellery, * Treasury general – General Treasury, * two

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s (osaul), * Ensign general (khorunzhy), * Bunchuk general (bunchuzhny)

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