The Black Council of 1663 was a Cossack Rada meeting on 17–18 June 1663 near Nizhyn, Ukraine, where thousands of common Cossacks, Zaporozhians, Ukrainian peasants and Cossack starshyna assembled to elect a new hetman of left-bank Ukraine. The main candidates were acting hetman Yakym Somko, Nizhyn colonel Vasyl Zolotarenko, and the kish otaman, Ivan Briukhovetsky.