Samiilo Vasyliovych Velychko (Ukrainian: Самі́йло Васи́льович Вели́чко) (11 February 1670 – after 1728) — was a Ukrainian Cossack nobleman and chronicler who wrote the first systematic presentation of the history of the Cossack Hetmanate.

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Samiilo Vasyliovych Velychko
Memorial sign in honor of Samiilo Velychko, village Zhukyː ″Lifelong memory and honor famous countryman, patriot, the greatest chronicler of the heroic days of the Cossacks Samiylo Velychko″
Born	11 February 1670 Zhuky, Poltava Regiment, Cossack Hetmanate
Died	after 1728 in the same place
Nationality	Ukrainian
Occupation	chronicler
Known for	the author of the first systematic presentation of the history of the Ukrainian Cossack state
Notable work	"Chronicle of Samiilo Velychko"

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He was born in the family of the Cossack Vasily Velychko in the village of Zhuky of the first hundred Poltava regiment. His father was able to write, was a man of wisdom and respected and had a large library.

Successfully passed entrance exams to the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium, which at that time was one of the most reputable educational institutions in Europe.

Successfully graduated from college before 1690. From this year he took office as the clerk of the General Military Chancellery, headed by Vasyl Kochubey.

Velichko also fulfilled the special orders of Vasyl Kochubey, "the most necessary and secret at that time military affairs," even those who went to the Russian tsar, and the cipher (encrypted) letters to the owners of Volosky and Muntyansky. Via Velychko there was correspondence, which Ivan Mazepa did not know. In this status, he has served 15 years.

Unfortunately, the grave of Samiilo Velychko has not survived to this day. And in the center of the village Zhuky, on the top, near the chapel of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos and the mound of memory, a granite boulder was set up, which symbolizes the last shelter of the famous historian of the Cossack.

Today, in the village where Samiilo Velychko was born, lived and worked, the memorial complex of the glory of the Ukrainian Cossacks was erected. In 2010, the first complex of memory of the dead Cossacks was opened.

In 2003, in order to honor the memory of the glorious Cossack chronicler, the son of Poltava region, and the presentation of the best examples of national culture in the context of the creativity of one of its founders, the regional literary award named after Samiil Wielicz was initiated.

In 2020, the National Bank of Ukraine issued a commemorative silver coin with a face value of ₴10, dedicated to Samiilo Velychko.