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Lytvynenko (Литвиненко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Lytvinenko · Lytwynenko. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 361 towns and villages of 20 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: 2 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 6 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 18 placesDonetsk oblast: 17 placesZhytomyr oblast: 13 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 15 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 49 placesKyiv oblast: 49 placesKirovohrad oblast: 20 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 7 placesOdesa oblast: 4 placesPoltava oblast: 37 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 34 placesTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 28 placesKherson oblast: 15 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 2 placesCherkasy oblast: 26 placesChernihiv oblast: 63 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Selected oblast

Chernihiv oblast

63 places with the surname Литвиненко

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Coverage: Chernihiv oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 6317%
Kyiv oblast 4914%
Poltava oblast 3710%
Sumy oblast 349%
Kharkiv oblast 288%
Cherkasy oblast 267%
Kirovohrad oblast 206%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 185%
Donetsk oblast 175%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 154%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kherson oblast 154%
Zhytomyr oblast 134%
Mykolaiv oblast 72%
Luhansk oblast 62%
Odesa oblast 41%
Ternopil oblast 31%
Vinnytsia oblast 21%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 21%
Lviv oblast 11%
Rivne 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

9 of 361 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 6324 of 63

and 39 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 4910 of 49

and 39 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 378 of 37

and 29 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 347 of 34

and 27 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 286 of 28

and 22 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 265 of 26

and 21 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 204 of 20

and 16 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 183 of 18

and 15 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 173 of 17

and 14 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 153 of 15

and 12 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kherson oblast 153 of 15

and 12 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 133 of 13

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

Mykolaiv oblast 73 of 7

and 4 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 →

Odesa oblast 43 of 4

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

Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Vinnytsia oblast 2All 2 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2All 2 places
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

38 entries in 12 regiments

  • Чигиринський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Полтавський
  • Корсунський
  • Кальницький
  • Переяславський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Уманський
  • Прилуцький
  • Черкаський
  • Брацлавський
  • Миргородський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Васько ЛитвиненкоЧигиринський regimentp. 1
Карпъ Литвиненкоsotnia ВовченковаЧеркаський regimentp. 42
Илько Литвиненкоsotnia КорчовскаяКорсунський regimentp. 93
Иванъ ЛитвиненкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 107
Трохимъ Литвиненкоsotnia ИванскаяУманський regimentp. 146

5 of 38 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.

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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