Lubny Regiment

The Lubny Regiment (Ukrainian: Лубенський полк, romanized: Lubenskyi polk) was one of ten territorial-administrative subdivisions of the Cossack Hetmanate. The regiment's capital was the city of Lubny, now in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. Other major cities of the regiment were Pyriatyn, Hlynsk and Romny.

Lubny Regiment Лубенський полк
Flag of the Sencha (village) Sotnia of the Lubny Regiment.
Active	1649—1781
Country	Cossack Hetmanate
Type	Cossack Regiment
Size	13 sotnias (1658) 23 (18th century)
Garrison/HQ	Lubny, Ukraine

The Lubny Regiment was founded in 1649, and was combined with the Myrhorod Regiment in 1658. During combination, 7 sotnias from the Myrhorod Regiment, 4 from the Kropyvna Regiment, and 2 from the Poltava Regiment were added into the Lubny Regiment. After reformation, the regiment consisted of a total of 13 sotnias, and later on in the 18th century — of 23 sotnias.

According to documents of 1723, the regiment consisted of 2,687 land cossacks, and 3,968 horseback cossacks. In 1781, the regiment was officially abolished, and its territory was reformed into the Kyiv and Chernihiv Governorates.

Notable Commander was Mikhail Kazimierz Skarzhinsky.

Government

The government of the Lubny regiment in the 17th century was held by the following persons: Pavlo Shvets (1658), Yakiv Zasiadko (1659, 1660), Shamlytskyi Stepan (1660, 1661, 1663), Andrii Pyrskyi (1662, 1663), Verbytskyi Hnat Yakovych (1663), Hamalii Hryhorii Mykhailovych (1665, 1668, 1669, 1687—88), Shcherbak Bohdan Vasyliovych (1666, 1667), Leshchenko Ustym (1668, commissioned), Plys Pylyp (1669), Nesterenko Andrii Korniiovych (1672), Mykhailo Stepanov (1672), Serbyn Ivan Fedorovych (1672, 1675, 1676), Maksym Iliashenko (1676—1687), Yakym Holovchenko (about 1688). Svichka Leontii Nazarovych (1688—1699).

The colonels of the 18th century were: Dmytro Zelenskyi (1700—1708), Vasyl Savych (1710—1714), Andrii Markovych (1714—1727), Petro Danylovych Apostol (1727—1757), Ivan Petrovych Kuliabka (1757—1770) and Maksymovych Stepan Petrovych, (1770—1781).

When the regimental administration was first formed in 1649, the Lubny regiment was divided between two regiments. Lubny could not be appointed as a regimental center in those days, probably due to some private reasons.

See also

• Regiment