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Ponomarenko (Пономаренко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Recorded in 428 towns and villages of 18 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: 3 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 25 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 22 placesDonetsk oblast: 27 placesZhytomyr oblast: 4 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 17 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 56 placesKyiv oblast: 56 placesKirovohrad oblast: 20 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 11 placesOdesa oblast: 5 placesPoltava oblast: 17 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 45 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 56 placesKherson oblast: 19 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 3 placesCherkasy oblast: 46 placesChernihiv oblast: 51 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–4
  • 5–19
  • 20–27
  • 45–56

Selected oblast

Kyiv oblast

56 places with the surname Пономаренко

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Coverage: Kyiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 5613%
Kharkiv oblast 5613%
Chernihiv oblast 5112%
Cherkasy oblast 4611%
Sumy oblast 4511%
Donetsk oblast 276%
Luhansk oblast 256%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 225%
Kirovohrad oblast 205%
Kherson oblast 194%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 174%
Poltava oblast 174%
Mykolaiv oblast 113%
Odesa oblast 51%
Zhytomyr oblast 41%
Vinnytsia oblast 31%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 31%
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

10 of 428 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 5624 of 56

and 32 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 5610 of 56

and 46 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 519 of 51

and 42 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 468 of 46

and 38 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 458 of 45

and 37 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 275 of 27

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

Luhansk oblast 254 of 25

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 224 of 22

and 18 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 203 of 20

and 17 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kherson oblast 193 of 19

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 173 of 17

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

Poltava oblast 173 of 17

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

Mykolaiv oblast 113 of 11

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

Odesa oblast 53 of 5

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

Zhytomyr oblast 43 of 4

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

Vinnytsia oblast 3All 3 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place

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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