Yakym Somko (Ukrainian: Іоаким Сомко, modern Ukrainian: Яким Сомко) (c. 1610s in Pereiaslav – September 28, 1664), was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader...

return Ukraine to the commonwealth. This led the left-bank cossacks under Yakym Somko to depose him. Depressed by this effective partition of Ukraine, in January...

hetman Yakym Somko, Nizhyn colonel Vasyl Zolotarenko, and the kish otaman, Ivan Briukhovetsky. The starshyna proposed and supported Yakym Somko who was...

Russian forces of Grigory Romodanovsky and the Left-Bank Cossacks of Yakym Somko (about 28 000 men).. Towards the end of 1663, the Polish-Lithuanian King...

of Hadiach and he led a mutiny that deposed him in 1659. Along with Yakym Somko he secured Left-bank Ukraine and handed it over to Aleksei Trubetskoi...

treason provoked a civil war within Ukraine in 1661, when the new ataman Yakym Somko led the pro-Moscow Cossacks against Yurii and his new Polish allies....

protectorate Russian protectorate 1660—1663 Yurii Khmelnytsky 1660—1663 Yakym Somko 1663—1665 Pavlo Teteria 1663—1668 Ivan Briukhovetsky 1665—1668 Petro...

Russian forces of Grigory Romodanovsky and the Left-Bank Cossacks of Yakym Somko. In 1678, the Kaniv regiment was overran by Turks and its administration...

similar development took place in Pereiaslav whose inhabitants led by Yakym Somko swore "to die for the great Tsar, for God's churches and Orthodox faith"...

Kremenchuk Regiment was founded in 1661. The regiment was created by Yakym Somko in order to keep control over the Poltava region. Later the regiment...