Cossack culture

thumb|right|Georgian nobleman Constantine Gelovani wearing a chokha with military [[shoulder marks]] A chokha, also known as a cherkeska in Russian, is a woolen coat with a high neck that is part of the traditional male dress of the peoples of the Caucasus, as well as Terek and Kuban Cossacks of the former Russian Empire, who subsequently adopted it from the Native peoples of the Caucasus.

A stanitsa or stanitza ( ; ), also spelled stanytsia ( ) or stanitsa ( ), was a historical administrative unit of a Cossack host, a type of Cossack polity that existed in the Russian Empire.

type of boat

thumb|1869 depiction of Sviatoslav I, the [[prince of Kiev from 945 to 972]]

legendary character in Ukrainian folklore

thumb|A 1904 recording of Kozachok Polianka performed by Hnat Honcharenko, from the collection of [[Filaret Kolessa]] Kozachok (, ) or kazachok (, ) is a traditional Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian quick-paced folk dance for couples originating with the Cossacks in the 16th century. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was performed throughout Ukraine, Belarus and South Russia in various local varieties. From the 18th century, it was as well performed at noble courts including in France, Hungary, Poland, and Russia.

thumb|350px|Nagaika The nagaika, sometimes nagyka (, ) is a short, thick whip with round cross-section used by Cossacks, borrowed from the Nogai people, hence the original name "nogaika", or "Nogai's whip". It is also called камча, kamcha from the Turkic word "kamci" for "whip". The latter word is also used for short whips of Central Asian origin.

Russian choir

men's chorus founded by Serge Jaroff

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right|200px|Dagestani Gazyr bag from Kubachi (urban-type settlement)|Kubachi|thumb right|200px|thumb|A Georgian man in chokhathumb|right|200px|Baron Pyotr Wrangel in Russian Cossack uniform A gazyr (Abkhaz: Аҳазырҭрақәа/а-хьазыр, Adyghe: хьэзыр, Armenian: Գազիրներ, Avar: Роцен, Azerbaijani: Vəznə, Chechen: Бустамаш bustamash, Dargin: Буста/Бустат, Ingush: Бустамаш, Ossetian: Бæрцытæ, Georgian: მასრები masrebi, Lak: чила, Lezgin: Везнеяр, from Turkish hazır, "ready", ultimately from Arabic) is an implement to hold a rifle charge: a tube with a bullet and a measure of gunpowder or a paper cartri

Balachka (; ) is the traditional language of the Kuban Cossacks. It is spoken in the Kuban region of southern Russia, particularly in present-day Krasnodar Krai. It developed among the Black Sea Cossacks who were resettled to the region in the late 18th century from territories of the former Zaporizhian Sich.

Russian song

cuisine of the Cossack people of Russia and Ukraine

an anonymous Cossack Ukrainian chronicle from around 1700

thumb|right|300px|Stamps of Ukraine, 1999 Baidak (, , ) was a wooden sailing ship, similar to a cog. It had a flush-laid flat bottom approximately 3–4 metres wide, which narrowed to tapered ends, and one 5 metre mast. Measuring approximately 15–20 (or 36–60) metres in length, a baidak could carry a load of approximately 200 tons. It could be operated by oars or sail.

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18th century Ukranian chronicle

Ukranian chronicle from the end of 17th and the start of 18th century