A podyachy or podyachiy (Russian: подьячий, подъячий; from Greek: ὑποδιάκονος, romanized: hypodiakonos, lit. '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.
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As an obsolete term, and it may be loosely translated as clerk; the Latin word is equally derived from a clerical title, and generically used.
The podyachyes were classified into junior, middle and senior. A senior podyachy (старший подьячий) was a councillor to a dyak.
See also
edit- See "Voyevoda#Siberia for their role in Siberian administration
- See "Deacon#Cognates" for other historical terms derived from the Greek diakonos.