Appointed Hetman (Ukrainian: Гетьман Наказний) was a political position of Cossack Hetmanate. Traditionally appointed hetmans were the first deputies of the Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks. The office of appointed hetman existed exclusively at courtship of the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host. More than often the office was appointed by the Hetman as his deputy rather than elected by the General Military Council or the Cossack Council. His appointment could have been temporary and quickly abrupt and was caused by a necessity to command a group of forces at other portions of military front or tactical direction, similarly to the "field hetman" of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. At times of Bohdan Khmelnytsky such hetmans were Stanislav Krychevsky (1649) and Ivan Zolotarenko (1654-55). Sometimes the