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Savenko (Савенко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 136 towns and villages of 18 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: 6 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 3 placesDonetsk oblast: 10 placesZhytomyr oblast: 4 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 10 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 17 placesKyiv oblast: 17 placesKirovohrad oblast: 13 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 9 placesOdesa oblast: 5 placesPoltava oblast: 10 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 8 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 5 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 1 placeCherkasy oblast: 6 placesChernihiv oblast: 22 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Chernihiv oblast

22 places with the surname Савенко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 2216%
Kyiv oblast 1712%
Kirovohrad oblast 1310%
Donetsk oblast 107%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 107%
Poltava oblast 107%
Mykolaiv oblast 97%
Sumy oblast 86%
Vinnytsia oblast 64%
Cherkasy oblast 64%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Odesa oblast 54%
Kharkiv oblast 54%
Zhytomyr oblast 43%
Luhansk oblast 43%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 32%
Kherson oblast 21%
Rivne oblast 11%
Khmelnytskyi 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

7 of 136 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 22All 22 places
Kyiv oblast 1710 of 17

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

Kirovohrad oblast 137 of 13

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

Donetsk oblast 105 of 10

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 105 of 10

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

Poltava oblast 105 of 10

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

Mykolaiv oblast 95 of 9

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

Sumy oblast 84 of 8

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

Vinnytsia oblast 63 of 6

and 3 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 →

Odesa oblast 53 of 5

and 2 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 →

Zhytomyr 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 →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

35 entries in 11 regiments

  • Черкаський
  • Канівський
  • Переяславський
  • Прилуцький
  • Ніжинський
  • Київський
  • Корсунський
  • Брацлавський
  • Миргородський
  • Полтавський
  • Чернігівський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Хома Савенкоsotnia ШубцеваЧеркаський regimentp. 30
Карпъ СавенкоКанівський regimentp. 54
Игнатъ Савенкоsotnia ИмглѣевскаяКорсунський regimentp. 97
Василь Савенкоsotnia ЯніполскаяБрацлавський regimentp. 169
Грицько Савенкоsotnia БилогородскаяКиївський regimentp. 203

5 of 35 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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