- Sotnia
Sotnia was a traditional division of the Cossack regiments from earliest records of the
Zaporizhian Sich , and means 'a hundred'.During the Cossack service in the Imperial Russian Armies the typical regiment had five sotnias or
squadron s. In the foot Cossack regiments the name was still used, although it represented an infantry company). The unit term was retained until the 1917 Russian Revolution.During the
Second World War , the basic combat unit of theUkrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was a "kuren" or "kurin" (literally a village; also used for the 11th lowest Cossack rank [p.il, Mikaberidze, Aleksander, The Russian officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Savas Beatie, New York, 2005] ), equivalent to abattalion of four to eight hundred members, divided into three or four sotnias.Each sotnia contained three or four "chotas" (singular "chot" - count;
platoons ), and each "chot" was assembled from three "riys" (singular "riy"(Ukrainian), "roy" (Russian)), literally 'a swarm'; Section of 10 to 12 men). Every "roy" was usually equipped with one light machine gun, two or three automatic weapons, and at least seven rifles.References
Mikaberidze, Aleksander, The Russian officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Savas Beatie, New York, 2005
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