Kammala wannan jumlar: An fara ambaton Chyhyryn a matsayin sansanin Cossack na hunturu. 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 da
Yaƙin Russo-Turkish (1676<unk>1681) ya kasance cibiyar kamfen biyu na jini (1675<unk>76 da 1677<unk>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.