Coat of arms of Hetmanate

Coat of arms of Zaporizhia Host
Versions
Coat of arms of Zaporizhian Host (Lower)
Coat of arms of the Ukrainian State (1918)
Details
Adopted	1648
Crest	Tryzub (variation)
Escutcheon	Azure, cossack with rifle Or
Supporters	None

Cossack with rifle, sometimes mistakenly as Knight with rifle or Cossack with musket (Ukrainian: Лицар із самопалом, Lytsar iz samopalom) − an emblem of the Zaporizhian Host and later the state emblem of Hetmanate, and Ukrainian State.

Literal translation of the emblem is Knight with improvised weapon. However "samopal" more precisely here means a general rifle rather than an improvised firearm. According to an arts studies specialist, samopal used to refer to any rifle but musket or carabine.

The origin of emblem is uncertain, while its first records date back to 1592. On the initiative of Pyotr Rumyantsev the emblem was phased out and replaced with the Russian double-head eagle in 1767.

The Cossack with rifle was recovered by the Hetman of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropadsky in 1918. However, later the emblem disappeared again until in 2005 it reappeared on the proposed Great Seal of Ukraine.

According to the Constitution of Ukraine, the emblem has to be included into the Great Seal of Ukraine.

Based on images of the Zaporizhian Host Coat of Arms, they define four iconographic types of the base coat of arms figure (cossack):