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Hlushchenko (Глущенко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Glushchenko · Hluszczenko. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 172 towns and villages of 19 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: 1 placeVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 11 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 5 placesDonetsk oblast: 13 placesZhytomyr oblast: 6 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 11 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 16 placesKyiv oblast: 16 placesKirovohrad oblast: 13 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 9 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 6 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 24 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 23 placesKherson oblast: 4 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 2 placesCherkasy oblast: 17 placesChernihiv oblast: 7 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 2–6
  • 7–11
  • 13–24

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Sumy oblast

24 places with the surname Глущенко

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Coverage: Sumy oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Sumy oblast 2414%
Kharkiv oblast 2313%
Cherkasy oblast 1710%
Kyiv oblast 169%
Donetsk oblast 138%
Kirovohrad oblast 138%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 116%
Luhansk oblast 116%
Mykolaiv oblast 95%
Chernihiv oblast 74%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 63%
Poltava oblast 63%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 53%
Kherson oblast 42%
Odesa oblast 21%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 21%
Vinnytsia oblast 11%
Volyn oblast 11%
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

5 of 172 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Sumy oblast 24All 24 places
Kharkiv oblast 2310 of 23

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

Cherkasy oblast 177 of 17

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

Kyiv oblast 167 of 16

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

Donetsk oblast 136 of 13

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

Kirovohrad oblast 136 of 13

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 115 of 11

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

Luhansk oblast 115 of 11

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

Mykolaiv oblast 94 of 9

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

Chernihiv oblast 73 of 7

and 4 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 →

Poltava oblast 63 of 6

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 53 of 5

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

Kherson oblast 43 of 4

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

Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2All 2 places
Vinnytsia oblast 1All 1 place
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

26 entries in 11 regiments

  • Чигиринський
  • Корсунський
  • Кальницький
  • Київський
  • Брацлавський
  • Переяславський
  • Черкаський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Миргородський
  • Полтавський
  • Ніжинський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Семенъ ГлушченкоЧигиринський regimentp. 2
Лесько Глущенкоsotnia ПещанскаяЧеркаський regimentp. 51
Василь Глущенкоsotnia ИвахниченковаКорсунський regimentp. 85
Иванъ Глусченкоsotnia ЯніполскаяБрацлавський regimentp. 169
Олекса Глущенкоsotnia БалабановскаяКальницький regimentp. 187

5 of 26 entries shown. 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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