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Puhach (Пугач): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Pugach · Puhacz. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 125 towns and villages of 23 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: 13 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 10 placesDonetsk oblast: 8 placesZhytomyr oblast: 4 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 7 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 8 placesKyiv oblast: 8 placesKirovohrad oblast: 6 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 3 placesMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 5 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 7 placesTernopil oblast: 2 placesKharkiv oblast: 8 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 10 placesCherkasy oblast: 9 placesChernihiv oblast: 11 placesChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1
  • 2–4
  • 5–7
  • 8–13

Selected oblast

Vinnytsia oblast

13 places with the surname Пугач

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 1310%
Chernihiv oblast 119%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 108%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 108%
Cherkasy oblast 97%
Donetsk oblast 86%
Kyiv oblast 86%
Kharkiv oblast 86%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 76%
Sumy oblast 76%
All 23 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 65%
Poltava oblast 54%
Zhytomyr oblast 43%
Luhansk oblast 43%
Lviv oblast 32%
Rivne oblast 22%
Ternopil oblast 22%
Kherson oblast 22%
Chernivtsi oblast 22%
Volyn oblast 11%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 11%
Mykolaiv oblast 11%
Odesa 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

19 of 125 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 13All 13 places
Chernihiv oblast 117 of 11

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 106 of 10

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 106 of 10

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

Cherkasy oblast 95 of 9

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

Donetsk oblast 85 of 8

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

Kyiv oblast 85 of 8

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

Kharkiv oblast 85 of 8

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 74 of 7

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

Sumy oblast 74 of 7

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

Kirovohrad oblast 63 of 6

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

Poltava 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 →

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

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

Lviv oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Ternopil oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

4 entries in 3 regiments

  • Уманський
  • Полтавський
  • Ніжинський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Данило Пугачъsotnia ВузовскаяУманський regimentp. 137
Кирикъ ПугачъУманський regimentp. 141
Иванъ Пугачъsotnia ГаяцкаяПолтавський regimentp. 298
Семенъ Пугачъsotnia НежинскаяНіжинський regimentp. 326

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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