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Lytovchenko (Литовченко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 102 towns and villages of 15 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 oblastVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 7 placesDonetsk oblast: 11 placesZhytomyr oblast: 1 placeZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 7 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 9 placesKyiv oblast: 9 placesKirovohrad oblast: 6 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 5 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 11 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 17 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblastCherkasy oblast: 5 placesChernihiv oblast: 13 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Kharkiv oblast

17 places with the surname Литовченко

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Coverage: Kharkiv oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 1717%
Chernihiv oblast 1313%
Donetsk oblast 1111%
Sumy oblast 1111%
Kyiv oblast 99%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 77%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 77%
Kirovohrad oblast 66%
Poltava oblast 55%
Cherkasy oblast 55%
All 15 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Luhansk oblast 44%
Kherson oblast 33%
Mykolaiv oblast 22%
Zhytomyr 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

1 of 102 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 17All 17 places
Chernihiv oblast 1310 of 13

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

Donetsk oblast 118 of 11

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

Sumy oblast 118 of 11

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

Kyiv oblast 97 of 9

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 75 of 7

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 75 of 7

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

Kirovohrad oblast 64 of 6

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 →

Cherkasy oblast 53 of 5

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

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

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

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

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

6 entries in 4 regiments

  • Переяславський
  • Чернігівський
  • Черкаський
  • Білоцерківський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Денисъ Литовченкоsotnia МарковаЧеркаський regimentp. 38
Васько ЛитовченкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 130
Остапъ ЛитовченкоПереяславський regimentp. 215
Исай ЛитовченкоПереяславський regimentp. 215
Фесько ЛитовченкоЧернігівський regimentp. 331

5 of 6 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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