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Tereshchenko (Терещенко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 271 towns and villages of 17 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: 2 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 14 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 21 placesDonetsk oblast: 21 placesZhytomyr oblast: 7 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 10 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 33 placesKyiv oblast: 33 placesKirovohrad oblast: 15 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 26 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 31 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 18 placesKherson oblast: 7 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 5 placesCherkasy oblast: 22 placesChernihiv oblast: 32 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Kyiv oblast

33 places with the surname Терещенко

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Coverage: Kyiv oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 3312%
Chernihiv oblast 3212%
Sumy oblast 3111%
Poltava oblast 2610%
Cherkasy oblast 228%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 218%
Donetsk oblast 218%
Kharkiv oblast 187%
Kirovohrad oblast 156%
Luhansk oblast 145%
All 17 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 104%
Zhytomyr oblast 73%
Kherson oblast 73%
Mykolaiv oblast 52%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 52%
Vinnytsia oblast 21%
Odesa oblast 21%

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

8 of 271 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 3324 of 33

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

Chernihiv oblast 329 of 32

and 23 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 319 of 31

and 22 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 267 of 26

and 19 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 226 of 22

and 16 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 216 of 21

and 15 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 216 of 21

and 15 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 185 of 18

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

Kirovohrad oblast 154 of 15

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

Luhansk oblast 144 of 14

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 103 of 10

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

Zhytomyr oblast 73 of 7

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

Kherson oblast 73 of 7

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

Mykolaiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 53 of 5

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

Vinnytsia oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

43 entries in 14 regiments

  • Канівський
  • Прилуцький
  • Білоцерківський
  • Чигиринський
  • Миргородський
  • Черкаський
  • Полтавський
  • Кальницький
  • Ніжинський
  • Корсунський
  • Брацлавський
  • Київський
  • Переяславський
  • Кропивнянський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Хведоръ Тересченкоsotnia БоровицкаяЧигиринський regimentp. 8
Нестеръ Терещенкоsotnia МошенскаЧеркаський regimentp. 45
Климъ ТерешченкоКанівський regimentp. 52
Ониеько Терещенкоsotnia ВеруненковаКорсунський regimentp. 83
Ясько ТерещенкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 107

5 of 43 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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