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Zinchenko (Зінченко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 266 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: 29 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 12 placesDonetsk oblast: 16 placesZhytomyr oblast: 7 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 19 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 30 placesKyiv oblast: 30 placesKirovohrad oblast: 12 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 17 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 19 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 38 placesKherson oblast: 9 placesKhmelnytskyi oblastCherkasy oblast: 19 placesChernihiv oblast: 31 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 2
  • 7–12
  • 16–17
  • 19–38

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Kharkiv oblast

38 places with the surname Зінченко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 3814%
Chernihiv oblast 3112%
Kyiv oblast 3011%
Luhansk oblast 2911%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 197%
Sumy oblast 197%
Cherkasy oblast 197%
Poltava oblast 176%
Donetsk oblast 166%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 125%
All 17 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 125%
Kherson oblast 93%
Zhytomyr oblast 73%
Vinnytsia oblast 21%
Mykolaiv oblast 21%
Odesa oblast 21%
Rivne 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

7 of 266 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 3824 of 38

and 14 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 319 of 31

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

Kyiv oblast 309 of 30

and 21 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 298 of 29

and 21 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 195 of 19

and 14 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 195 of 19

and 14 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 195 of 19

and 14 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 175 of 17

and 12 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 164 of 16

and 12 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 123 of 12

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

Kirovohrad oblast 123 of 12

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

Kherson oblast 93 of 9

and 6 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 →

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

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

44 entries in 12 regiments

  • Білоцерківський
  • Черкаський
  • Прилуцький
  • Брацлавський
  • Переяславський
  • Ніжинський
  • Чернігівський
  • Чигиринський
  • Корсунський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Миргородський
  • Канівський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Гринець Зѣнченкоsotnia БужинскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 8
Евхимъ Зѣнченкоsotnia ШубцеваЧеркаський regimentp. 30
Грицько Зѣнченкоsotnia КулагинаКанівський regimentp. 59
Процыкъ Зѣнченкоsotnia Максима ГородийскогоКорсунський regimentp. 98
Романъ ЗѣнченкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 108

5 of 44 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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