Yurii Khmelnytsky

Yurii Khmelnytsky
Hetman of Zaporizhian Host
In office 27 August 1657 – 21 October 1657
Preceded by	Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Succeeded by	Ivan Vyhovsky
In office 17 October 1659 – 1663
Preceded by	Ivan Vyhovsky
Succeeded by	Ivan Briukhovetsky
Hetman of Ottoman Ukraine
In office 1678–1681
Preceded by	Petro Doroshenko
Succeeded by	George Ducas
Personal details
Born	1641 Subotiv, near Chyhyryn, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Died	1685 (disputed) Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire

Yurii Khmelnytsky ((monastic name: Hedeon), Ukrainian: Юрій Хмельницький, Polish: Jerzy Chmielnicki, Russian: Юрий Хмельницкий) (1641 – 1685(?)), younger son of the famous Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and brother of Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, was a Zaporozhian Cossack political and military leader. Although he spent half of his adult life as a monk and archimandrite, he also was Hetman of Ukraine on several occasions — in 1659-1660 and 1678–1681 and starost of Hadiach, becoming one of the most well-known Ukrainian politicians of the "Ruin" period for the Cossack Hetmanate.