Production of Iron Weapons for Regiments and Hundreds of the Zaporizhzhian Host on the Land of Drevlians (17th–18th Century)

Abstract

The article attempts to combine the research on iron production based on archival materials from the complex expedition of 1932 under the leadership of Oleksandr Ohloblin with the ways of providing weapons to hundreds and regiments of the Zaporizhzhian Host in the Land of Drevlians.The Ukrainian Cossack Hetmanate state of the 17th – 18th centuries, which was built on the ancient Ukrainian traditions of the tribal system, had its own administrative division into hundreds and regiments. The regiment and the hundred acted simultaneously as a military unit, a territorial unit, and a financial and judicial district. At the same time, the Zaporizhzhian Host had military and state-political autonomy, first as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (from the Treaty of Zboriv in 1649 to the Pereiaslav Agreement in 1654), and then as part of the Moscow state (realm and empire) from January 1654 (the Pereiaslav Agreement) and to the liquidation of the hundred-regiment administration of Left Bank Ukraine in September 1781 and the implementation of the division of this territory into governorships (provinces) in January 1782.In this study, we tried to identify ores that could provide the Cossacks' hundreds and regiments with weapons and other products during the Liberation War of the Ukrainian people led by Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.The issue of restoring the main industries in the land of Drevlians after the revolution of 1917–1918 arose during the reconstruction of Soviet Ukraine. At the beginning of 1922, the Volyn Miners Union proposed the revival of the iron and steel industry. In Soviet times, this was not done, but during the days of independence, the old branches of the Polissia industry on the territory of the Right Bank Polissia could be strengthened with the prospect of their further powerful development.