The Nizhyn Regiment or Nezhin Regiment (, ) was one of ten territorial-administrative subdivisions of the Cossack Hetmanate. The regiment's capital was the city of Nizhyn, now in Chernihiv Oblast of central Ukraine. Other major cities of the regiment were Hlukhiv and Baturyn. The Nizhyn Regiment was founded in 1648, in 1653 it annexed the territory of the Novhorod-Siverskyi Regiment. Around that time the Regiment consisted of 10 sotnias. In 1654 add several hundred sotnia from the Chernihiv Regiment. Baturyn, and Hlukhiv the former capitals of the Hetmanate were part of the regiment. On the territories of the regiment were 1 city, 3 towns, and 866 villages. In 1782 the regiment was disbanded by the order of the Empress Catherine the Great. All of the regiment's territories were included into the Chernigov Governorate. History 1648 - creation of the regiment. Originally consisted of 10 hundreds. 1653 - the Novgorod regiment withdrew from this regiment for a short time. 1654 - several hundred Chernigov regiments, all hundreds of the liquidated Novgorod regiment and the former Starodub district of Smolensk voivodeship were added to the Nizhyn regiment. The Cossacks of the Nizhyn Regiment took part in the uprisings of 1657-1658 under the leadership of Martin Pushkar, and in 1658 under the leadership of Ivan Bezpaly. 1663 - 10 hundred joined the Starodub Regiment. The regiment took part in the Crimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689, the Azov campaigns of 1695-1696, and the Northern War of 1700-1721. According to the register of 1723, the Nizhyn Regiment consisted of 19 hundreds, which included 6,527 cavalry and 3,379 infantry Cossacks. The majority of the population were feudally dependent common peasants and assistants. 1752 - Olyshivska Hundred and Mrynska Hundred became part of the Kiev Regiment. 1782 - the regiment is liquidated. The territory became part of the Chernigov and Novgorod-Siversky governorates. At that time the Nizhyn regiment consisted of 22 hundred. The regiment had 1 city, 3 towns and 866 villages. Throughout its historical existence, the regiment housed two hetman's capitals of the Cossack Hetmanate: Baturin and Gluchov. Nizhyn Regiment of the period of B. Khmelnytsky's hetmanship In the summer of 1648, the Nizhyn Cossack Regiment was formed in the liberated Nizhyn, which in the autumn of the same year numbered about 10,000 Cossacks. The newly formed regiment bordered on the Chernihiv, Pereyaslav and Pryluky regiments. The territory of the Nizhyn Regiment occupied the left