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Buriak (Буряк): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Recorded in 168 towns and villages of 21 oblasts in the state memory books of 1917–1960. This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.

The index covers only the source material processed so far. An absent place does not mean the surname was never used there; a shared surname does not establish family origin or kinship.

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Vinnytsia oblast: 11 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 13 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 8 placesDonetsk oblast: 6 placesZhytomyr oblast: 2 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 10 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 18 placesKyiv oblast: 18 placesKirovohrad oblast: 10 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 3 placesMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblast: 7 placesPoltava oblast: 4 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 7 placesTernopil oblast: 4 placesKharkiv oblast: 20 placesKherson oblast: 4 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 15 placesCherkasy oblast: 7 placesChernihiv oblast: 13 placesChernivtsi oblast: 3 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1–3
  • 4–6
  • 7–10
  • 11–20

Selected oblast

Kharkiv oblast

20 places with the surname Буряк

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Coverage: Kharkiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 2012%
Kyiv oblast 1811%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 159%
Luhansk oblast 138%
Chernihiv oblast 138%
Vinnytsia oblast 117%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 106%
Kirovohrad oblast 106%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 85%
Odesa oblast 74%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Sumy oblast 74%
Cherkasy oblast 74%
Donetsk oblast 64%
Poltava oblast 42%
Ternopil oblast 42%
Kherson oblast 42%
Lviv oblast 32%
Chernivtsi oblast 32%
Zhytomyr oblast 21%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 21%
Mykolaiv oblast 11%

Each oblast name opens its coverage page: parishes, books and what has been digitized.

Years of the sources

These books concern 1917–1960. Families in the 19th century were recorded in parish registers. Those are what we read, with a frame number beside every name.

Memory books 1917–1960

  • “Rehabilitated by History” («Реабілітовані історією»)1917–1960
  • National Book of Memory of Holodomor Victims1932–1933

Places with a ready parish description

16 of 168 places

Parish, books and what has been digitized: open a place.

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 20All 20 places
Kyiv oblast 188 of 18

and 10 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 157 of 15

and 8 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 136 of 13

and 7 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 136 of 13

and 7 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 115 of 11

and 6 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 104 of 10

and 6 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 104 of 10

and 6 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 83 of 8

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Odesa oblast 73 of 7

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 73 of 7

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 73 of 7

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 63 of 6

and 3 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 43 of 4

and 1 place more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ternopil oblast 43 of 4

and 1 place more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kherson oblast 43 of 4

and 1 place more in the oblast · all in the search →

Lviv oblast 3All 3 places
Chernivtsi oblast 3All 3 places
Zhytomyr oblast 2All 2 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

2 entries in 2 regiments

  • Чигиринський
  • Кальницький

The same surname in 1649 does not by itself mean this was your ancestor.

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Мисько Бурякъsotnia БужинскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 7
Иванъ Бурякъsotnia БабинскаяКальницький regimentp. 191

Names and sotnias as spelled in the 1875 edition of the register (Moscow, edited by O. M. Bodianskyi); "p." is the page of that edition.

What these books can and cannot tell you

They can

  • Show the towns and villages where the surname was recorded in 1917–1960.
  • Suggest which oblast to start the search in.

They cannot

  • This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.
  • An absent place does not mean the surname was never used there.
  • A shared surname does not establish family origin or kinship.

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Source: state memory books, «Реабілітовані історією» and the National Book of Memory of the Victims of the Holodomor. We publish surnames only: no first names, dates or fates.

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