Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Chyhyryn an fara ambaton shi a matsayin sansanin Cossack mai ƙarfi. A cikin 1638, Bohdan Khmelnytsky ya zama starosta (shugaban yanki), kuma a cikin 1648 ya zama sabon gidan da aka zaɓa na Hetman kuma babban birnin jihar Cossack, Zaporozhian Host. A lokacin Yaƙin Rasha da Turkiyya (1676<unk>1681)
ya kasance cibiyar yakin basasa guda biyu (1675-76 da 1677-78). A shekara ta 1678 sansanin soja na Rasha da ke janyewa a Chyhyryn ya fashe shi, yayin da sojojin Turkiyya suka kori sauran birnin. Bayan wannan, sannu a hankali ya rasa muhimmancinsa. Ya kasance cibiyar rundunar Chyhyryn har zuwa 1712 kuma bayan haɗuwa ta ƙarshe da Daular Rasha (1793) ya zama wani ɓangare na yankin Kyiv.