A Podyachy or podyachiy (; from the Greek hypodiakonos, "assistant servant") was an office (bureaucratic) occupation in prikazes (local and upper governmental offices) and lesser local offices of Russia in 15th-18th centuries. As an anachronism, it may be loosely translated as clerk the Latin word equally derived from a clerical title, and generically used. Podyachyes were classified into junior, middle and senior. A senior podyachy (Старший подьячий) was a councillor to a dyak. See also See "Voyevoda#Siberia for their role in Siberian administration See "Deacon#Cognates" for other historical terms derived from the Greek diakonos. Government occupations Obsolete occupations Tsardom of Russia Russian Empire