Cossack with musket
{{Short description|National emblem of the Cossack Hetmanate and Ukrainian State}}
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|image = Herb Viyska Zaporozkoho.svg
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|image2_caption = Coat of Arms of the Zaporozhian Host (Lower)
|image3 = Alex K Ukrainska Derzhava.svg
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|image3_caption = Coat of Arms of the Ukrainian State (1918){{efn|small coat of arms created by Heorhiy NarbutBondarenko, O. [http://kh.ridna.ua/2017/02/20/25-rokiv-tomu-buv-zatverdzhenyj-malyj-derzhavnyj-herb-ukrajiny/ Twenty five years ago was adopted the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine (25 років тому був затверджений Малий Державний Герб України)]. Native Khmelnytskyi Oblast portal. 20 February 2017}}
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|year_adopted = 1648
|crest = Tryzub (variation)
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|shield = Azure, cossack with rifle Or
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The Cossack with rifle, sometimes as Knight with rifle or Cossack with musket ({{langx|uk|Лицар із самопалом|translit=Lytsar iz samopalom}}), is a former national emblem of the Cossack Hetmanate (Zaporozhian Host).Savchuk, Yu. [http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?Z21ID=&I21DBN=EIU&P21DBN=EIU&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=eiu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=TRN=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=Gerb_Maloros_nacii Coat of Arms of the Malorussian Nation (ГЕРБ МАЛОРОСІЙСЬКОЇ НАЦІЇ)]. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. In the early 20th century, it was used as the official national emblem of the short-lived Ukrainian State.
Overview
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The literal translation of the emblem is "Knight with improvised weapon". However, samopal more precisely here means a general rifle rather than an improvised firearm. According to an arts studies specialist, samopal used to refer to any rifle but musket or carbine.
The origin of the emblem is uncertain, while its first records date back to 1592. On the initiative of Pyotr Rumyantsev the emblem was phased out and replaced with the Russian double-head eagle in 1767.
The emblem was revived by Pavlo Skoropadskyi, the hetman of all Ukraine, in 1918. However, later the emblem disappeared again until in 2005 it reappeared on the proposed Great Seal of Ukraine.
According to the Constitution of Ukraine, the emblem has to be included into the Great Seal of Ukraine.
Description
Based on images of the Zaporizhian Host Coat of Arms, they define four iconographic types of the base coat of arms figure (cossack):
- Coat of Arms of Host (before 1648) body and head is turned three quarters to the left, feet pacing to the left, right arm hangs freely at a hip, left – holds stock of rifle at 45° angle to body
- Coat of Arms of Zaporizhian Host Municipal (1648–1670, Cossack Hetmanate) body and head is turned three quarters to the left, feet at shoulder width forward, right arm behind back, left – holds stock of rifle at 45° angle to body
- Coat of Arms of Zaporizhian Host Municipal (1670–1766, Left-bank Ukraine) body and head is turned three quarters to the left, feet at shoulder width forward, right arm at waist, left – holds stock of rifle at 90° angle to body
- Coat of Arms of Zaporizhian Host Lower (1670–1775, Zaporizhian Sich) body and head is turned three quarters to the left, feet at shoulder width forward, right arm at waist, left – holds stock of rifle at 90° angle to body, left near cossack available spear (at later versions to the left of the spear a structure)
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Gallery
File:Герб Войска Запорожского.png|Coat of arms of the Ukrainian Cossacks from the chronicles of Hryhoriy Hrabyanka (end of XVII century)
File:Smaller Coat of arms of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.svg|Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
File:Coat of arms of Zaporizhia Oblast m.svg|Zaporizhia Oblast
File:COA Cherkasy, Cherkaska, Ukraine.svg|Cherkasy
File:Coat of Arms of Starokostiantyniv.png|Starokostiantyniv
File:Semenivka city coa.png|Semenivka
File:Herb Kubanskoyi Narodnoyi Respubliky.svg|Kuban People's Republic
File:Coat of Arms of Novorussia.svg|Russian political project Novorossiya
(2014–2015)
See also
Notes
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References
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External links
- Tetiana Poshyvailo. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140710125915/http://mamajeva-sloboda.ua/publ.php?id=406 "Kozak Mamai" among his deeds]. Center of folklorist studies "Kozak Mamai".
- Oleksiy Strukevych. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140710161815/http://mamajeva-sloboda.ua/publ.php?id=128 Abolishment of the Hetmanate Coat of Arms]. Center of folklorist studies "Kozak Mamai".
- Odnorozhenko, O. [http://www.haidamaka.org.ua/page_odnorogenko.html Cossack Heraldry (Козацька геральдика)]. Haidamaka portal. (accessed July 25, 2017)
- Hudymenko, Yu. [https://tsn.ua/ru/blogi/themes/politics/flagi-nashih-otcov-833357.html Flags of our ancestors (Флаги наших отцов)]. TSN. 31 March
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