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Rudyk (Рудик): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 141 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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Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

37 places with the surname Рудик

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Coverage: Khmelnytskyi oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3726%
Vinnytsia oblast 2417%
Rivne oblast 139%
Ternopil oblast 118%
Sumy oblast 96%
Lviv oblast 75%
Kyiv oblast 64%
Chernihiv oblast 64%
Poltava oblast 54%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 32%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 32%
Kharkiv oblast 32%
Cherkasy oblast 32%
Donetsk oblast 21%
Zhytomyr oblast 21%
Chernivtsi oblast 21%
Volyn oblast 11%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 11%
Zaporizhzhia 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

40 of 141 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 3724 of 37

and 13 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 2413 of 24

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

Rivne oblast 137 of 13

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

Ternopil oblast 116 of 11

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

Sumy oblast 95 of 9

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

Lviv oblast 73 of 7

and 4 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 →

Chernihiv 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 →

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 3All 3 places
Kirovohrad oblast 3All 3 places
Kharkiv oblast 3All 3 places
Cherkasy oblast 3All 3 places
Donetsk oblast 2All 2 places
Zhytomyr oblast 2All 2 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1All 1 place
Zaporizhzhia 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 4 regiments

  • Корсунський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Брацлавський
  • Полтавський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Евхимъ Рудикъsotnia КостенковаКорсунський regimentp. 93
Лаврѣнъ РудыкъБілоцерківський regimentp. 125
Сема Рудикъsotnia ГорянкоцкаяБрацлавський regimentp. 165
Мисько РудикъПолтавський regimentp. 281

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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