Right-Bank Ukraine
Right-Bank Ukraine contains the largest volume of documentation, especially across the former Kyiv gubernia, where the surname appears frequently in parish and rural records.
Geographic evidence
Regional Record Clusters
The surname Зайчик (Zaichyk) is documented across several historical regions of Ukraine, Belarus, and neighboring lands. The material is organized here by broader regional groupings, with individual localities and records treated within each section.
Left-Bank Ukraine
Another major concentration of records appears across Left-Bank Ukraine, especially in the Chernihiv and Poltava historical regions. This includes early civic and Cossack-era material as well as later parish and local records.
Southern Ukraine and the Black Sea Region
Southern records include the Kherson, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Oleksandrivka, and Crimea areas. These records are especially useful for later imperial-period urban and regional documentation.
Belarusian Lands
Records from Belarusian lands include rural and parish material from areas such as Gomel, Pinsk, and Grodno, showing the surname’s presence across neighboring East Slavic regions.
Volhynia and Galicia
Western records include early Volhynian material, Kremenets-area records, Catholic entries from the broader region, and smaller attestations further west, including Lviv.
Eastern and Outlying Records
A small set of eastern and outlying records extends the surname beyond the main regional clusters, including Yuzovka and Volnovakha in the Donetsk region and separate Samara / Volga attestations.