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Savchenko (Савченко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 514 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: 20 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 25 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 17 placesDonetsk oblast: 33 placesZhytomyr oblast: 26 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 18 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 67 placesKyiv oblast: 67 placesKirovohrad oblast: 33 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 15 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 24 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 41 placesTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 58 placesKherson oblast: 12 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 7 placesCherkasy oblast: 41 placesChernihiv oblast: 70 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Chernihiv oblast

70 places with the surname Савченко

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Coverage: Chernihiv oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 7014%
Kyiv oblast 6713%
Kharkiv oblast 5811%
Sumy oblast 418%
Cherkasy oblast 418%
Donetsk oblast 336%
Kirovohrad oblast 336%
Zhytomyr oblast 265%
Luhansk oblast 255%
Poltava oblast 245%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 204%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 184%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 173%
Mykolaiv oblast 153%
Kherson oblast 122%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 71%
Ternopil oblast 31%
Odesa oblast 21%
Lviv oblast 11%
Rivne 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

22 of 514 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 7024 of 70

and 46 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 6710 of 67

and 57 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 589 of 58

and 49 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 416 of 41

and 35 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 416 of 41

and 35 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 335 of 33

and 28 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 335 of 33

and 28 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 264 of 26

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

Luhansk oblast 253 of 25

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

Poltava oblast 243 of 24

and 21 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 203 of 20

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 183 of 18

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 173 of 17

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

Mykolaiv oblast 153 of 15

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

Kherson oblast 123 of 12

and 9 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 73 of 7

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

Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

146 entries in 16 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Иванъ Савченкоsotnia МедвѣдовскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 9
Евхимъ СавченкоЧеркаський regimentp. 29
Процыкъ Савченкоsotnia ВолынцоваКанівський regimentp. 59
Степанъ Савченкоsotnia ВеруненковаКорсунський regimentp. 82
Сергый СавченкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 109

5 of 146 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.

Similar surnames in the index

Similar in spelling. That does not make the families related.

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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