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Chernenko (Черненко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Czernenko. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 170 towns and villages of 18 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: 4 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 6 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 14 placesDonetsk oblast: 15 placesZhytomyr oblast: 6 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 12 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 23 placesKyiv oblast: 23 placesKirovohrad oblast: 9 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 3 placesPoltava oblast: 11 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 12 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 16 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblastCherkasy oblast: 23 placesChernihiv oblast: 5 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–3
  • 4–6
  • 9–12
  • 14–23

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Kyiv oblast

23 places with the surname Черненко

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Coverage: Kyiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 2314%
Cherkasy oblast 2314%
Kharkiv oblast 169%
Donetsk oblast 159%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 148%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 127%
Sumy oblast 127%
Poltava oblast 116%
Kirovohrad oblast 95%
Zhytomyr oblast 64%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Luhansk oblast 64%
Kherson oblast 53%
Chernihiv oblast 53%
Vinnytsia oblast 42%
Mykolaiv oblast 32%
Odesa oblast 32%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 21%
Ternopil 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

6 of 170 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 23All 23 places
Cherkasy oblast 2310 of 23

and 13 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 167 of 16

and 9 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 157 of 15

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 146 of 14

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 125 of 12

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

Sumy oblast 125 of 12

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

Poltava oblast 115 of 11

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

Kirovohrad oblast 94 of 9

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

Zhytomyr oblast 63 of 6

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

Luhansk oblast 63 of 6

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

Kherson oblast 53 of 5

and 2 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 53 of 5

and 2 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 43 of 4

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

Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

1 entry in 1 regiment

  • Полтавський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Фесько ЧерненкоПолтавський regimentp. 280

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.

Similar surnames in the index

Similar in spelling. That does not make the families related.

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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