| If I had not entered into conversation with the ataman, we should have been riddled with balls at the first movement. |
| They live there in dirty little cabins and underground caves, a close community with its ataman and common funds. |
| I should have had to knuckle down very submissively to some ataman, or bully, and this I was not willing to do. |
| The ataman had executive powers, and at time of war, he was the supreme commander in the field. |
| In 1582, the Siberia Khanate was attacked by the Cossack ataman Yermak, who defeated Kuchum's forces and captured the capital Qashliq. |
| Each Cossack force had its own ataman and there was an ataman of all Cossack forces who, from 1827, was the heir to the imperial throne. |
