Okhmativ, Battle of

Okhmativ, Battle of [Охматівська битва; Okhmativska bytva]. A battle during the Cossack-Polish War. From 29 January to 1 February 1655, near the village of Okhmativ (now in Zhashkiv raion, Cherkasy oblast), an army of 60,000 Cossacks commanded by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and 6,000 to 10,000 Muscovite troops under the command of Vasilii Buturlin and Vasilii Sheremetev engaged a Polish-Tatar force commanded by Stanisław Rewera Potocki, Stanisław Lanckoroński, and Stefan Czarniecki. Although the battle was inconclusive, the Poles and Tatars halted their offensive and retreated from Right-Bank Ukraine. The Vinnytsia regiment commanded by Colonel Ivan Bohun particularly distinguished itself during the conflict.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]