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Mishchenko (Міщенко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 262 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: 4 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 13 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 20 placesDonetsk oblast: 17 placesZhytomyr oblast: 10 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 12 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 35 placesKyiv oblast: 35 placesKirovohrad oblast: 7 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 16 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 27 placesTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 36 placesKherson oblast: 8 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 7 placesCherkasy oblast: 9 placesChernihiv oblast: 32 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 10–17
  • 20–36

Selected oblast

Kharkiv oblast

36 places with the surname Міщенко

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Coverage: Kharkiv oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 3614%
Kyiv oblast 3513%
Chernihiv oblast 3212%
Sumy oblast 2710%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 208%
Donetsk oblast 176%
Poltava oblast 166%
Luhansk oblast 135%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 125%
Zhytomyr oblast 104%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Cherkasy oblast 93%
Kherson oblast 83%
Kirovohrad oblast 73%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 73%
Vinnytsia oblast 42%
Ternopil oblast 31%
Odesa oblast 21%
Rivne oblast 21%
Volyn oblast 11%
Mykolaiv 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

13 of 262 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 3624 of 36

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

Kyiv oblast 3510 of 35

and 25 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 329 of 32

and 23 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 278 of 27

and 19 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 206 of 20

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

Donetsk oblast 175 of 17

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

Poltava oblast 164 of 16

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

Luhansk oblast 133 of 13

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 123 of 12

and 9 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 103 of 10

and 7 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 93 of 9

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

Kherson oblast 83 of 8

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

Kirovohrad oblast 73 of 7

and 4 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 →

Vinnytsia oblast 43 of 4

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

Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place

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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