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Melnychenko (Мельниченко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Melnichenko · Melnyczenko. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 197 towns and villages of 22 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: 12 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 3 placesDonetsk oblast: 6 placesZhytomyr oblast: 39 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 4 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 40 placesKyiv oblast: 40 placesKirovohrad oblast: 13 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 13 placesOdesa oblast: 4 placesPoltava oblast: 1 placeRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 1 placeTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 4 placesKherson oblast: 10 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 7 placesCherkasy oblast: 22 placesChernihiv oblast: 8 placesChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 2–3
  • 4–10
  • 12–40

Selected oblast

Kyiv oblast

40 places with the surname Мельниченко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 4020%
Zhytomyr oblast 3920%
Cherkasy oblast 2211%
Kirovohrad oblast 137%
Mykolaiv oblast 137%
Vinnytsia oblast 126%
Kherson oblast 105%
Chernihiv oblast 84%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 74%
Donetsk oblast 63%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 42%
Odesa oblast 42%
Kharkiv oblast 42%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 32%
Ternopil oblast 32%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 21%
Luhansk oblast 21%
Lviv oblast 11%
Poltava oblast 11%
Rivne oblast 11%
Sumy oblast 11%
Chernivtsi 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

23 of 197 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 4024 of 40

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

Zhytomyr oblast 3915 of 39

and 24 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 228 of 22

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

Kirovohrad oblast 135 of 13

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

Mykolaiv oblast 135 of 13

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

Vinnytsia oblast 124 of 12

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

Kherson oblast 104 of 10

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

Chernihiv oblast 83 of 8

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 73 of 7

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

Donetsk oblast 63 of 6

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 43 of 4

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

Odesa oblast 43 of 4

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

Kharkiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 3All 3 places
Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Poltava oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Sumy oblast 1All 1 place
Chernivtsi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

52 entries in 15 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Савка Мелниченкоsotnia ЖаботинскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 11
Иванъ Мелниченкоsotnia ДрагилеваЧеркаський regimentp. 34
Таврило Мелниченкоsotnia АндрееваКанівський regimentp. 70
Лесько Мелниченкоsotnia ВеруненковаКорсунський regimentp. 82
Фесько МелниченкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 117

5 of 52 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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