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Shcherbak (Щербак): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 183 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 oblastVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 19 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 7 placesDonetsk oblast: 15 placesZhytomyr oblast: 3 placesZakarpattia oblast: 3 placesZaporizhzhia oblast: 8 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 23 placesKyiv oblast: 23 placesKirovohrad oblast: 5 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 4 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 8 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 15 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 36 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 3 placesCherkasy oblast: 17 placesChernihiv oblast: 5 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–2
  • 3–4
  • 5–8
  • 15–36

Selected oblast

Kharkiv oblast

36 places with the surname Щербак

All 36 places →

Coverage: Kharkiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 3620%
Kyiv oblast 2313%
Luhansk oblast 1910%
Cherkasy oblast 179%
Donetsk oblast 158%
Sumy oblast 158%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 84%
Poltava oblast 84%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 74%
Kirovohrad oblast 53%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kherson oblast 53%
Chernihiv oblast 53%
Mykolaiv oblast 42%
Zhytomyr oblast 32%
Zakarpattia oblast 32%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 32%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 21%
Rivne oblast 21%
Lviv oblast 11%
Odesa oblast 11%
Ternopil 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

2 of 183 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 3624 of 36

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

Kyiv oblast 2310 of 23

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

Luhansk oblast 198 of 19

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

Cherkasy oblast 177 of 17

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

Donetsk oblast 156 of 15

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

Sumy oblast 156 of 15

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 83 of 8

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

Poltava oblast 83 of 8

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 73 of 7

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

Kirovohrad oblast 53 of 5

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

Kherson 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 →

Mykolaiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Zhytomyr oblast 3All 3 places
Zakarpattia oblast 3All 3 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3All 3 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

4 entries in 4 regiments

  • Чигиринський
  • Черкаський
  • Корсунський
  • Уманський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Костя Шчербакъsotnia КриловскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 5
Прокопъ Щербакъsotnia ДрагилеваЧеркаський regimentp. 33
Миеько Щербакъsotnia ИвахниченковаКорсунський regimentp. 85
Павло ЩербакъУманський regimentp. 131

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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