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Shostak (Шостак): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 122 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: 4 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblastDnipropetrovsk oblast: 2 placesDonetsk oblast: 7 placesZhytomyr oblast: 9 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 7 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 16 placesKyiv oblast: 16 placesKirovohrad oblast: 6 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 14 placesMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 10 placesRivne oblast: 9 placesSumy oblast: 6 placesTernopil oblast: 6 placesKharkiv oblast: 2 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 8 placesCherkasy oblast: 5 placesChernihiv oblast: 5 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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Kyiv oblast

16 places with the surname Шостак

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 1613%
Lviv oblast 1411%
Poltava oblast 108%
Zhytomyr oblast 97%
Rivne oblast 97%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 87%
Donetsk oblast 76%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 76%
Kirovohrad oblast 65%
Sumy oblast 65%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Ternopil oblast 65%
Cherkasy oblast 54%
Chernihiv oblast 54%
Vinnytsia oblast 43%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 22%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 22%
Kharkiv oblast 22%
Kherson oblast 22%
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

22 of 122 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 16All 16 places
Lviv oblast 149 of 14

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

Poltava oblast 106 of 10

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

Zhytomyr oblast 95 of 9

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

Rivne oblast 95 of 9

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 85 of 8

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

Donetsk oblast 74 of 7

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 74 of 7

and 3 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 →

Sumy oblast 63 of 6

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

Ternopil oblast 63 of 6

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

Cherkasy 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 →

Vinnytsia oblast 43 of 4

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 2All 2 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Kharkiv oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

14 entries in 10 regiments

  • Корсунський
  • Брацлавський
  • Кальницький
  • Переяславський
  • Уманський
  • Київський
  • Полтавський
  • Прилуцький
  • Ніжинський
  • Чернігівський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Лесько Шостакъsotnia ДемковаКорсунський regimentp. 102
Лавринъ Шостакъsotnia ИваньгородскаяУманський regimentp. 136
Павелъ ШостакъБрацлавський regimentp. 173
Павелъ ШостакъКальницький regimentp. 181
Олексий Шостакъsotnia ПредримирскогоКиївський regimentp. 202

5 of 14 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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