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Rybak (Рибак): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Recorded in 211 towns and villages of 19 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: 31 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblastDnipropetrovsk oblast: 1 placeDonetsk oblast: 3 placesZhytomyr oblast: 21 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 2 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 15 placesKyiv oblast: 11 placesKyiv oblast: 11 placesKirovohrad oblast: 6 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 16 placesMykolaiv oblast: 6 placesOdesa oblast: 5 placesPoltava oblastRivne oblast: 5 placesSumy oblast: 2 placesTernopil oblast: 20 placesKharkiv oblastKherson oblast: 1 placeKhmelnytskyi oblast: 35 placesCherkasy oblast: 18 placesChernihiv oblast: 8 placesChernivtsi oblast: 5 places
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–2
  • 3–5
  • 6–16
  • 18–35

Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

35 places with the surname Рибак

All 35 places →

Coverage: Khmelnytskyi oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3517%
Vinnytsia oblast 3115%
Zhytomyr oblast 2110%
Ternopil oblast 209%
Cherkasy oblast 189%
Lviv oblast 168%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 157%
Kyiv oblast 115%
Chernihiv oblast 84%
Kirovohrad oblast 63%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Mykolaiv oblast 63%
Odesa oblast 52%
Rivne oblast 52%
Chernivtsi oblast 52%
Donetsk oblast 31%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 21%
Sumy oblast 21%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 11%
Kherson 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

59 of 211 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 3524 of 35

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

Vinnytsia oblast 3111 of 31

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

Zhytomyr oblast 217 of 21

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

Ternopil oblast 207 of 20

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

Cherkasy oblast 186 of 18

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

Lviv oblast 166 of 16

and 10 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 155 of 15

and 10 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 114 of 11

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

Chernihiv oblast 83 of 8

and 5 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 →

Mykolaiv oblast 63 of 6

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

Odesa oblast 53 of 5

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

Rivne oblast 53 of 5

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

Chernivtsi oblast 53 of 5

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

Donetsk oblast 3All 3 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 2All 2 places
Sumy oblast 2All 2 places
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1All 1 place
Kherson oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

1 entry in 1 regiment

  • Кальницький

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Павло Рыбакъsotnia НемировскаяКальницький regimentp. 196

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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