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Zaitsev (Зайцев): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Counted together with the feminine form Зайцева.

Recorded in 154 towns and villages of 20 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: 24 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 11 placesDonetsk oblast: 13 placesZhytomyr oblast: 7 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 9 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 4 placesKirovohrad oblast: 7 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 3 placesPoltava oblast: 1 placeRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 14 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 20 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 6 placesCherkasy oblast: 6 placesChernihiv oblast: 7 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1
  • 3–6
  • 7–9
  • 11–24

Selected oblast

Luhansk oblast

24 places with the surname Зайцев

All 24 places →

Coverage: Luhansk oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Luhansk oblast 2416%
Kharkiv oblast 2013%
Sumy oblast 149%
Donetsk oblast 138%
Vinnytsia oblast 117%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 117%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 96%
Zhytomyr oblast 75%
Kirovohrad oblast 75%
Chernihiv oblast 75%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 64%
Cherkasy oblast 64%
Kherson oblast 53%
Kyiv oblast 43%
Mykolaiv oblast 32%
Odesa oblast 32%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 11%
Lviv oblast 11%
Poltava 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

14 of 154 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Luhansk oblast 24All 24 places
Kharkiv oblast 2010 of 20

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

Sumy oblast 147 of 14

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

Donetsk oblast 136 of 13

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

Vinnytsia oblast 115 of 11

and 6 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 115 of 11

and 6 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 94 of 9

and 5 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 →

Kirovohrad oblast 73 of 7

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

Chernihiv oblast 73 of 7

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 63 of 6

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

Cherkasy oblast 63 of 6

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

Kherson oblast 53 of 5

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

Kyiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
  • ПнівНадвірнянський р-н
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Poltava oblast 1All 1 place
  • ПопівкаПолтавський р-н (Карлівський р-н до 2020)
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place

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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