Podyachy

{{single source|date=May 2025}} [[File:Cherkasov I. A.jpg|thumb|Ivan Cherkasov started his career as a ''podyachy'']] A '''''podyachy''''' or '''''podyachiy''''' ({{Langx|ru|подьячий, подъячий}}; from {{langx|el|ὑποδιάκονος|hypodiakonos|assistant servant}}) was an office (bureaucratic) occupation in ''prikazes'' (local and upper governmental offices) and lesser local offices of Russia in the 15th to 18th centuries. The ''podyachyes'' were classified into junior, middle and senior. A senior ''podyachy'' (старший подьячий) could be a deputy to a ''dyak'' and helped him in some duties. Junior and middle ones were usually employed only as scribes.<ref name=efron>{{cite Efron|Подьячие}}</ref>

==See also== *"Voyevoda#Siberia for their role in Siberian administration *"Deacon#Cognates" for other historical terms derived from the Greek ''diakonos''. * Russian rank titles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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Category:Government occupations Category:Obsolete occupations Category:Tsardom of Russia Category:Russian Empire

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