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Yashchenko (Ященко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 115 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: 8 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 6 placesDonetsk oblast: 11 placesZhytomyr oblast: 7 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 5 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 13 placesKyiv oblast: 13 placesKirovohrad oblast: 3 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 3 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 12 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 10 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 2 placesCherkasy oblast: 5 placesChernihiv oblast: 22 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 5–8
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Chernihiv oblast

22 places with the surname Ященко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 2219%
Kyiv oblast 1311%
Sumy oblast 1210%
Donetsk oblast 1110%
Kharkiv oblast 109%
Vinnytsia oblast 87%
Zhytomyr oblast 76%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 65%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 54%
Cherkasy oblast 54%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 33%
Mykolaiv oblast 33%
Poltava oblast 33%
Luhansk oblast 22%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 22%
Lviv oblast 11%
Odesa 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

9 of 115 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 22All 22 places
Kyiv oblast 139 of 13

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

Sumy oblast 128 of 12

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

Donetsk oblast 117 of 11

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

Kharkiv oblast 106 of 10

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

Vinnytsia oblast 85 of 8

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

Zhytomyr oblast 74 of 7

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 64 of 6

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 53 of 5

and 2 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 →

Kirovohrad oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Poltava oblast 3All 3 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2All 2 places
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

118 entries in 16 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Василь ЯсченкоЧигиринський regimentp. 1
Лукянъ Ященкоsotnia МарковаЧеркаський regimentp. 37
Омелько ЯсченкоКанівський regimentp. 53
Савка Ященкоsotnia ИвахниченковаКорсунський regimentp. 86
Иляшъ ЯщенкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 111

5 of 118 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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