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Radchenko (Радченко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 257 towns and villages of 17 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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Chernihiv oblast

44 places with the surname Радченко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 4417%
Kharkiv oblast 3112%
Poltava oblast 2610%
Sumy oblast 249%
Kyiv oblast 218%
Luhansk oblast 197%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 177%
Cherkasy oblast 177%
Donetsk oblast 156%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 114%
All 17 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 104%
Kirovohrad oblast 73%
Vinnytsia oblast 52%
Mykolaiv oblast 31%
Odesa oblast 31%
Kherson oblast 21%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 21%

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

9 of 257 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 4424 of 44

and 20 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 319 of 31

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

Poltava oblast 268 of 26

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

Sumy oblast 247 of 24

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

Kyiv oblast 216 of 21

and 15 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 195 of 19

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 175 of 17

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

Cherkasy oblast 175 of 17

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

Donetsk oblast 154 of 15

and 11 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 113 of 11

and 8 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 →

Kirovohrad oblast 73 of 7

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

Vinnytsia oblast 53 of 5

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

Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

66 entries in 16 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Иванъ Радченкоsotnia ОрловскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 16
Данило Радченкоsotnia ДрагилеваЧеркаський regimentp. 33
Михаиле РадченкоКанівський regimentp. 54
Игнатъ Радченкоsotnia ГоркушинаКорсунський regimentp. 81
Иванъ РадченкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 112

5 of 66 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.

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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