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Spivak (Співак): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 114 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: 14 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 2 placesDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblast: 6 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 2 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 5 placesKyiv oblast: 5 placesKirovohrad oblast: 2 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 7 placesMykolaiv oblast: 4 placesOdesa oblast: 4 placesPoltava oblast: 8 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 6 placesTernopil oblast: 2 placesKharkiv oblast: 15 placesKherson oblast: 1 placeKhmelnytskyi oblast: 12 placesCherkasy oblast: 6 placesChernihiv oblast: 12 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 5–7
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Kharkiv oblast

15 places with the surname Співак

All 15 places →

Coverage: Kharkiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 1513%
Vinnytsia oblast 1412%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1211%
Chernihiv oblast 1211%
Poltava oblast 87%
Lviv oblast 76%
Zhytomyr oblast 65%
Sumy oblast 65%
Cherkasy oblast 65%
Kyiv oblast 54%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 44%
Mykolaiv oblast 44%
Odesa oblast 44%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 22%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 22%
Kirovohrad oblast 22%
Luhansk oblast 22%
Ternopil oblast 22%
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

25 of 114 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 15All 15 places
Vinnytsia oblast 149 of 14

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 128 of 12

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

Chernihiv oblast 128 of 12

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

Poltava oblast 85 of 8

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

Lviv oblast 74 of 7

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

Zhytomyr oblast 64 of 6

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

Sumy oblast 64 of 6

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

Cherkasy oblast 64 of 6

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

Kyiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Donetsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Mykolaiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Odesa oblast 43 of 4

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 2All 2 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 2All 2 places
Kirovohrad oblast 2All 2 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Ternopil oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

3 entries in 3 regiments

  • Білоцерківський
  • Брацлавський
  • Миргородський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Иванъ СпѣвакъБілоцерківський regimentp. 118
Матѣй Спѣвакъsotnia ЧернавецкаяБрацлавський regimentp. 179
Андрѣй Спѣвакъsotnia СенчанскаяМиргородський regimentp. 277

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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