Dmitry Chuglazov

I am Dmitry Gennadievich Chuglazov - a US immigrant from Kyiv, Ukraine.  Living in Brooklyn, NY. Married to Olga (also a Kievite). We have two children (Alice and Tim). I am carrying on the investigation of the male line of the Chuglazovs, which has been started by my grandfather Nikolai.

I was fortunate to find a fellow Chuglazov genealogy and history buff  - Maksim Chuglazov, who is an expert in finding access to archives and the people who can help interpret the old documents.  I have been partnering with Maxim in this quest. The following is what we were able to learn about our heritage prior to any DNA testing - from family history and by searching the archives.

Careful study of census records and military archives allowed us to trace family history on my father's side (Chuglazov) to Don Cossacks who became Russian smallholders (single household land-owners) guarding Russia's south border. They were living in villages: Dobroe (March 1659 to September 1670) and later Ternovoe - located in Belgorod province. 

Savely son of Grigoriy Cheuplasov (sic) served for 3 years under Petr Ivanovich Potemkin in a war with Sweden among 570 Don Cossacks (signed up from Lower Don Cherkas Town in 1656). They captured fort Nyenskans, and won the Kotlin island naval battle. On March 10 1659 he applied to serve the Russian tsar in Belgorod with 183 fellow Cossacs.

Year 1626 written record mentions Dobroe village being resettled after its original residents have been captured in Crimean-Nogai raids. Area's remaining land-owners appealed for protection to the tsar Alexis of Russia in 1646. Nezhegolsk fortress-town (part of Belgorod Line) was founded in 1654.

Our Don Cossack ancestors serving the Russian tsars on the South border of Russia moved further south along with the borders of expanding Russia to the Ukrainian Line (near Orlovskaya and Preobrashenskaya strongholds), heads of the household probably served in Land Militia there (as required to maintain the  privilege of owning your own household and land).

Confession lists from 1771 and 1773 place two Chuglazov brothers' households in Staroverovka Village which has been founded around 1733-1737 in Sloboda Ukraine by old-faith refugees from around Orel, Russia and, from 1745, populated by small-holders and land-militiamen from Belgorod and Voronezh provinces. Village elders say that some settlers came from Old Oskol. My direct family branch is known as "Chuglazov-Brut" among the villagers.

Moving on to the family history passed on by my grandfather. In the early 1900's (before WW I and the revolution) my family left Staroverovka and  moved to "Siberia" - northern Kazakhstan (Lepsy Station), escaping the hardships and in search of better opportunities in Central Asia. There my great-grandpa married Anastasia Zhurbenko (her family was from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine). My grandpa Nikolai married Galina Ryabokon - another Ukrainian.

Places my family has lived, known from immediate family members:

• Staroverovka, Kharkov Area (Sloboda Ukraine) - until early 1900's

• Sarkand / Lepsy, Kazakhstan (near Lake Balkhash)

• Mayli-Say, Kyrgyzstan

• Shevchenko / Aktau, Kazakhstan (Mangyshlak)

• Kyiv, Ukraine

• Brooklyn, NY, USA

To summarize, research of the paternal ancestry has provided the following documented family history:

• Don Cossack - Savely son of Grigoriy Cheuplasov (Савелий Григорьев сын Чеупласов/Чюпласов).
  Earliest documented mention in 1656 (Starocherkasskaya / Старочеркасская, Rostov Oblast, Russiа, 346701).

• Belgorod Line Odnodvortsy - villages Dobroe  (March 1659 to September 1670) & Ternovoe in Russia's Belgorod area.

• Ukrainian Line Odnodvortsy - documented from around 1720s to 1905 or so.
  Many Chuglazovs remained in and around Staroverovka until now or branched out in later decades.

• Staroverovka village (Староверовка/Старовiрiвка) in Kharkov region of Ukraine.
  Chuglazov family documented in 1771-1773 census records.

• Samoila Chuglazov born around 1830? in Staroverovka. 

• Zinovy ​​Samoilovich Chuglazov - 1870? Starovirivka, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine - AKA "Ded Zinko". Master carpenter.

• Sergey Zinovievich Chuglazov (Сергей Зиновьевич Чуглазов) was born on July 4, 1895, in Staroverovka, Kharkiv, Ukraine, the son of Stepanida and Zinovy. Educated animal husbandry specialist. Revolutionary, partisan commissar. Teacher. He had four children (fathered 3 sons, adopted 1 son) with Anastasia Nikolaevna Zhurbenko. He died on March 5, 1955, in Chust, Namangan, Uzbekistan, at the age of 59.

• Nikolai Sergeevich Chuglazov was born on August 2, 1928, in Sarkand, Almaty region, Kazakhstan, his father, Sergei, was 33 and his mother, Anastasia, was 23. He had one son (Gennady - my father) and one daughter (Natasha) with Galina Andreevna Ryabokon between 1953 and 1965. He died in Sergiyev Posad, Moscow Oblast, Russia.
  
  He had 3 brothers:

  1. • Anatoly Sergeevich Chuglazov - born 1931 in Uspenovka Village, Kaszakhstan. Died in Makhachkala in 1997.

     • Alexander Sergeevich Chuglazov - born 1938 at Lepsy Station, Kazakhstan. 

     • Semen Chuglazov - (1934-1992) adopted. Born in Romania, died in Navoi.

On my mother's side: grandfather (Boris Aptekman) was of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, grandmother (Angelina Sechkarevа) was born in Stavropol, Russia. Both lived and passed away in Kyiv.

I am currently in progress of:

 translating and publishing my grandfather's book on this site,  

researching our family's genetic history: Chuglazov Family Ancestral Breadcrumbs ( archaeogenetics meets genealogy to tell a family story)

and gathering the materials for the following book, focused on my paternal ancestors' oldest available recorded history.