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Husak (Гусак): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 158 towns and villages of 23 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: 18 placesVolyn oblast: 2 placesLuhansk oblast: 5 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 7 placesDonetsk oblast: 12 placesZhytomyr oblast: 4 placesZakarpattia oblast: 4 placesZaporizhzhia oblast: 4 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 8 placesKyiv oblast: 8 placesKyiv oblast: 8 placesKirovohrad oblast: 8 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 10 placesMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 5 placesRivne oblast: 3 placesSumy oblast: 12 placesTernopil oblast: 9 placesKharkiv oblast: 5 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 12 placesCherkasy oblast: 6 placesChernihiv oblast: 12 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Vinnytsia oblast

18 places with the surname Гусак

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Coverage: Vinnytsia oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 1811%
Donetsk oblast 128%
Sumy oblast 128%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 128%
Chernihiv oblast 128%
Lviv oblast 106%
Ternopil oblast 96%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 85%
Kyiv oblast 85%
Kirovohrad oblast 85%
All 23 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 74%
Cherkasy oblast 64%
Luhansk oblast 53%
Poltava oblast 53%
Kharkiv oblast 53%
Zhytomyr oblast 43%
Zakarpattia oblast 43%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 43%
Rivne oblast 32%
Volyn oblast 21%
Kherson oblast 21%
Mykolaiv oblast 11%
Odesa 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

32 of 158 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 18All 18 places
Donetsk oblast 126 of 12

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

Sumy oblast 126 of 12

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 126 of 12

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

Chernihiv oblast 126 of 12

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

Lviv oblast 105 of 10

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

Ternopil oblast 94 of 9

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 84 of 8

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

Kyiv oblast 84 of 8

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

Kirovohrad oblast 84 of 8

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 73 of 7

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

Cherkasy oblast 63 of 6

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

Luhansk oblast 53 of 5

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

Poltava oblast 53 of 5

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

Kharkiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Zhytomyr oblast 43 of 4

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

Zakarpattia oblast 43 of 4

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 43 of 4

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

Rivne oblast 3All 3 places
Volyn oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

7 entries in 6 regiments

  • Чигиринський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Уманський
  • Брацлавський
  • Миргородський
  • Прилуцький

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Семенъ Гусакъsotnia Веремиевская за ДнепраЧигиринський regimentp. 17
Іосько ГусакъБілоцерківський regimentp. 117
Василь Гусакъsotnia МураховскаяБрацлавський regimentp. 171
Павло Гусакъsotnia ЛохвицкаяМиргородський regimentp. 275
Иванъ Гусакъsotnia СрибранскаяПрилуцький regimentp. 309

5 of 7 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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