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Medvid (Медвідь): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 138 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: 24 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblastDonetsk oblastZhytomyr oblast: 5 placesZakarpattia oblast: 5 placesZaporizhzhia oblast: 3 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 7 placesKyiv oblast: 12 placesKyiv oblast: 12 placesKirovohrad oblast: 3 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 18 placesMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblastPoltava oblastRivne oblast: 3 placesSumy oblast: 10 placesTernopil oblast: 18 placesKharkiv oblast: 4 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 10 placesCherkasy oblast: 1 placeChernihiv oblast: 8 placesChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1
  • 2–4
  • 5–8
  • 10–24

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Vinnytsia oblast

24 places with the surname Медвідь

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Coverage: Vinnytsia oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 2417%
Lviv oblast 1813%
Ternopil oblast 1813%
Kyiv oblast 129%
Sumy oblast 107%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 107%
Chernihiv oblast 86%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 75%
Zhytomyr oblast 54%
Zakarpattia oblast 54%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 43%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 32%
Kirovohrad oblast 32%
Rivne oblast 32%
Luhansk oblast 21%
Kherson oblast 21%
Chernivtsi oblast 21%
Mykolaiv oblast 11%
Cherkasy 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

53 of 138 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 24All 24 places
Lviv oblast 1810 of 18

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

Ternopil oblast 1810 of 18

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

Kyiv oblast 126 of 12

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

Sumy oblast 105 of 10

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 105 of 10

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

Chernihiv oblast 84 of 8

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 74 of 7

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

Zhytomyr oblast 53 of 5

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

Zakarpattia oblast 53 of 5

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

Kharkiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 3All 3 places
Kirovohrad oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 3All 3 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place
Cherkasy oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

1 entry in 1 regiment

  • Кальницький

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Федь МедвѣдьКальницький regimentp. 188

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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