Duties
- Open military councils (circle)
- Headed starshyna councils
- Enter diplomatic relationships with foreign countries
- Distribute military trophies
- Distribute profit from customs
- Legitimize the division of pastures, estates, and land for hunting and fishing
- Confirm the Kosh starshyna elected by the Sich council
- Appointed palanka and other starshynas and sometimes military servicemen
- Acting as supreme judge asserted the sentences made by kosh judge
- Accepted clergymen from Kiev and appointed priests to the churches of Sich and palankas
- During his absence appointed a nakazny otaman (lit. appointed otaman) as his deputy
In 1723 this rank was depreciated with the nomination of an Appointed Otaman (Наказний отаман) by the Tsar of Russia. Among most famous Koshovyi Otamans were Ivan Pidkova, Ivan Sirko, Petro Kalnyshevsky, and others. There were at least 30 Kosh Otamans in the history of Zaporizhian Sich before its collapse in 1775. Nothing is known about the Kosh Otamans of Tomak Sich, Bezlavuk Sich, and Mykytyn Rih Sich. The longest standing Sich was the Chortomlyk Sich of which most of information has survived. After the defeat at the battle of Poltava and the Sich raid Kost Hordiyenko transferred the Sich downstream along Dnieper to the old settlement of Oleshky in 1709, which was part of Ottoman Empire. It took some 25 years before the Russian government allowed for Cossacks to return to reestablish the New Sich by Ivan Malashevych. With the destruction of Sich in 1775 Zaporizhian Cossacks have moved to Danube Delta.
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