Cossack starshyna

Among Ukrainian Cossacks, starshyna was a collective noun for admitistrative categories of military officers and state officials. In common parlance the term referred to the privileged social stratum of the Cossack society.

Sharshyna was subdivided into: Later, sometime after the Khmelnytsky's Uprising, it was also associated with the Ukrainian nobility which derived out of the officership and the Hetman.
 * General Starshyna (Генеральна старшина), headed by Hetman (or Quartermaster General as acting Hetman)
 * Quartermaster General (Генеральний обозний)
 * Judge General (Генеральний суддя)
 * Secretary General (Генеральний писар)
 * Adjutant General (Генеральний осавул)
 * Treasurer General (Генеральний підскарбій)
 * Ensign General (Генеральний хорунжий)
 * Bunchuk General (Генеральний бунчужний)
 * Regimental (Polkova) Starshyna, headed by Polkovnyk (Colonel)
 * Regimental Obozni (Quartermaster) (Полковий обозний) – first Deputy Colonel. He was in charge of artillery and fortress fortifications. In the absence of a colonel he replaced him, but he was not authorized to issue universal orders (as opposed to the commanding colonel).
 * Regimental Judge (Полковий суддя) – was in charge of a civil court in the ratusha
 * Regimental Osavul (Полковий осавул) – assistant Colonel in Military Affairs
 * Regimental Khorunzhy (Полковий хорунжий) – commander of the "Khorunzhy Cossacks", guarding the colonel and the starshina. He was in charge of regimental music and was responsible for keeping the khorugv (regiment flag).
 * Regimental scribe (Полковий писар) – secretaries at the ratusha. One was in charge of military affairs, and the other of civilian affairs.
 * Starshyna of Hundred (Sotenna) – headed by Sotnyk
 * Sotenny otaman (Сотенний отаман) – the deputy sotnik, implemented the duties of an obozni and a judge on a sotnia level
 * Sotenny Osavul (Сотенний осавул) – assistant sotnik in military affairs
 * Sotenny Khorunzhy (Сотенний хорунжий) – headed the sotnias flags
 * Sotenny Scribe (Сотенний писар) – a secretary
 * Junior Starshyna (Молодша старшина) – headed by Otaman
 * Administration: Regimental scribe, General scribe