Yakiv Voronchenko

Yakiv Voronchenko is a Ukrainian statesman and military figure of the Hetmanship era. He was a Cherkasy (1648-1652) and Prylutsky (1652-1657; 1658) colonel. Associate of hetmans Petro Doroshenko and Ostap Gogol.

His ancestral estate was probably the village of Voronivka, which is now located in the Horodyschen district of the Cherkasy region. He served in the armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1648, when he joined the Cossack service under Bohdan Khmelnytskyi. He became the first commander of the Cherkasy regiment and led the Cherkasy troops during the key battles of Khmelnytskyi.

In 1654, he swore an oath to the Tsar of Moscow. His daughter was married to Zakhar Shyykevych, who was a statesman and a representative of the 17th-century general foreman of the Left Bank Hetmanship.

In 1679, Yakiv Voronchenko was executed in Kyiv by the decision of the military court of the army of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Memory

The alley Yaska Voronchenko in Cherkasy is named after him.

Notes

• The family estate was probably the village of Voronivka (now - Horodyshchensky District, Cherkasy Region).
• Jacob Voronchenko's daughter was married to Zakhar Shiykevich, a statesman and representative of the general foreman of the Left Bank Hetmanate of the 17th century.