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Tsymbal (Цимбал): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Tsimbal · Cymbal. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 138 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: 24 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 3 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 4 placesDonetsk oblast: 6 placesZhytomyr oblast: 6 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 6 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 15 placesKyiv oblast: 15 placesKirovohrad oblast: 10 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 2 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 9 placesTernopil oblast: 6 placesKharkiv oblast: 2 placesKherson oblast: 1 placeKhmelnytskyi oblast: 3 placesCherkasy oblast: 31 placesChernihiv oblast: 5 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1
  • 2–4
  • 5–6
  • 9–31

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Cherkasy oblast

31 places with the surname Цимбал

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Cherkasy oblast 3122%
Vinnytsia oblast 2417%
Kyiv oblast 1511%
Kirovohrad oblast 107%
Sumy oblast 97%
Donetsk oblast 64%
Zhytomyr oblast 64%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 64%
Ternopil oblast 64%
Chernihiv oblast 54%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 43%
Luhansk oblast 32%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 32%
Mykolaiv oblast 21%
Odesa oblast 21%
Poltava oblast 21%
Kharkiv oblast 21%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 11%
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

26 of 138 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Cherkasy oblast 3124 of 31

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

Vinnytsia oblast 2413 of 24

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

Kyiv oblast 158 of 15

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

Kirovohrad oblast 105 of 10

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

Sumy oblast 95 of 9

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

Donetsk oblast 63 of 6

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

Zhytomyr oblast 63 of 6

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

Zaporizhzhia 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 →

Chernihiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Luhansk oblast 3All 3 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Poltava oblast 2All 2 places
Kharkiv oblast 2All 2 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Kherson oblast 1All 1 place

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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