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Svystun (Свистун): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Svistun · Swystun. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 102 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: 11 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 8 placesDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblast: 4 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 1 placeIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 3 placesKyiv oblast: 3 placesKirovohrad oblastCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 16 placesMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblastPoltava oblast: 4 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 3 placesTernopil oblast: 13 placesKharkiv oblast: 14 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 6 placesCherkasy oblast: 4 placesChernihiv oblast: 3 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 3
  • 4–6
  • 8–16

Selected oblast

Lviv oblast

16 places with the surname Свистун

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Coverage: Lviv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Lviv oblast 1616%
Kharkiv oblast 1414%
Ternopil oblast 1313%
Vinnytsia oblast 1111%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 88%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 66%
Donetsk oblast 44%
Zhytomyr oblast 44%
Luhansk oblast 44%
Poltava oblast 44%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Cherkasy oblast 44%
Kyiv oblast 33%
Sumy oblast 33%
Chernihiv oblast 33%
Mykolaiv oblast 22%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 11%
Ivano-Frankivsk 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

25 of 102 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Lviv oblast 16All 16 places
Kharkiv oblast 1410 of 14

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

Ternopil oblast 1310 of 13

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

Vinnytsia oblast 118 of 11

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 86 of 8

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 64 of 6

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 →

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 →

Poltava oblast 43 of 4

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

Cherkasy oblast 43 of 4

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

Kyiv oblast 3All 3 places
Sumy oblast 3All 3 places
Chernihiv oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 1All 1 place
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

1 entry in 1 regiment

  • Переяславський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Васько Свистунъsotnia БыковскаяПереяславський regimentp. 228

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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