Yurii Khmelnytsky, monastic name Hedeon, younger son of the famous Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and brother of Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, was a Zaporozhian Cossack political and military leader. Although he spent half of his adult life as a monk and archimandrite, he also was Hetman of Ukraine in 1659–1660 and 1678–1681 and starost of Hadiach, becoming one of the most well-known Ukrainian politicians of the "Ruin" period for the Cossack Hetmanate.
- Occupation
- diplomat, Hetman of Zaporizhian Host
- Position held
- Hetman of Zaporizhian Host, Hetman of Zaporizhian Host
- Citizenship
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Born
- 1641
