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Rud (Рудь): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Recorded in 128 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: 16 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 12 placesDonetsk oblast: 5 placesZhytomyr oblast: 2 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 6 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 6 placesKyiv oblast: 6 placesKirovohrad oblast: 4 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 2 placesMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 13 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 8 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 19 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 6 placesCherkasy oblast: 11 placesChernihiv oblast: 5 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1
  • 2–4
  • 5–8
  • 11–19

Selected oblast

Kharkiv oblast

19 places with the surname Рудь

All 19 places →

Coverage: Kharkiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 1915%
Vinnytsia oblast 1612%
Poltava oblast 1310%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 129%
Cherkasy oblast 119%
Sumy oblast 86%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 65%
Kyiv oblast 65%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 65%
Donetsk oblast 54%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 54%
Kirovohrad oblast 43%
Luhansk oblast 43%
Zhytomyr oblast 22%
Lviv oblast 22%
Mykolaiv oblast 22%
Odesa oblast 22%
Rivne oblast 22%
Kherson oblast 22%
Ternopil 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

16 of 128 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 19All 19 places
Vinnytsia oblast 1610 of 16

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

Poltava oblast 138 of 13

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 127 of 12

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

Cherkasy oblast 116 of 11

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

Sumy oblast 85 of 8

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 63 of 6

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

Kyiv oblast 63 of 6

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 63 of 6

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

Donetsk oblast 53 of 5

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

Chernihiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Kirovohrad 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 →

Zhytomyr oblast 2All 2 places
Lviv oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Ternopil 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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