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Rudyi (Рудий): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Counted together with the feminine form Руда.

Recorded in 166 towns and villages of 21 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: 34 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 1 placeDnipropetrovsk oblast: 2 placesDonetsk oblast: 1 placeZhytomyr oblast: 4 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 4 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 7 placesKyiv oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 4 placesKirovohrad oblast: 8 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 20 placesMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 3 placesPoltava oblast: 1 placeRivne oblast: 3 placesSumy oblast: 3 placesTernopil oblast: 13 placesKharkiv oblast: 5 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 39 placesCherkasy oblast: 6 placesChernihiv oblast: 5 placesChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
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Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

39 places with the surname Рудий

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3923%
Vinnytsia oblast 3420%
Lviv oblast 2012%
Ternopil oblast 138%
Kirovohrad oblast 85%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 74%
Cherkasy oblast 64%
Kharkiv oblast 53%
Chernihiv oblast 53%
Zhytomyr oblast 42%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 42%
Kyiv oblast 42%
Odesa oblast 32%
Rivne oblast 32%
Sumy oblast 32%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 21%
Mykolaiv oblast 21%
Donetsk oblast 11%
Luhansk oblast 11%
Poltava oblast 11%
Chernivtsi 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

68 of 166 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 3924 of 39

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

Vinnytsia oblast 3416 of 34

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

Lviv oblast 209 of 20

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

Ternopil oblast 136 of 13

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

Kirovohrad oblast 83 of 8

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 73 of 7

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

Cherkasy oblast 63 of 6

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

Kharkiv 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 →

Zhytomyr oblast 43 of 4

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 43 of 4

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

Kyiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 3All 3 places
Sumy oblast 3All 3 places
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Donetsk oblast 1All 1 place
Luhansk oblast 1All 1 place
Poltava oblast 1All 1 place
Chernivtsi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

61 entries in 15 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Данило РудыйЧигиринський regimentp. 4
Назаръ Рудыйsotnia ПещанскаяЧеркаський regimentp. 52
Романъ РудыйКанівський regimentp. 53
Жаданъ Рудыйsotnia Максима ГородийскогоКорсунський regimentp. 98
Савка РудыйБілоцерківський regimentp. 107

5 of 61 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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