Tkachenko is a common Ukrainian

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

. Tkachenko is the central and eastern Ukrainian version of the western Ukrainian surname Tkachuk

Tkachuk

Tkachuk, Tkaczuk, or Tkatchuk is a common Ukrainian surname in Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora. The name in Ukrainian stands for the name of occupation, weaver...

, meaing "weaver

Weaver

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". Like other Ukrainian names ending in -ko or -chenko, their heritage is rooted in the Polyans

Polans

Polans may refer to two Slavic tribes:* Polans , in the area of Dnieper river* Polans , in the area of Warta. The tribe unified most of the lands of present-day Poland under the Piast dynasty....

 tribe that lived near modern-day Kiev

Kiev

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It is a very widespread surname. For instance it is first surname in Donetsk Oblast

Donetsk Oblast

Donetsk Oblast is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Donetsk. Historically, the province is an important part of the Donbas region...

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It may refer to:

• Darya Tkachenko
  Darya Tkachenko
  Darya Tkachenko is a Ukrainian draughts player, FMJD Grand Master, multiple times World champion in international draughts and two-times European champion in international draughts ....
  
   (born 1983), Ukrainian draughts player
• Dmytro Tkachenko (born 1979), Ukrainian violinist
• Heorhy Tkachenko
  Heorhy Tkachenko
  Heorhiy Kyrylovych Tkachenko .-Biography:Tkachenko was able to complete his high school education in Kharkiv before continuing his education in Moscow. He completed his education in Moscow as an architect in 1929 and continued to live in Moscow where he designed many of the parks around the city...
  
   (1898–1993), Ukrainian traditional bandurist
• Igor Tkachenko
  Igor Tkachenko
  Igor Valentinovitch Tkachenko was a Russian military pilot with the rank of Colonel, Russian Knights group leader, Kubinka Airbase Chief of the 237th Guards Aviation Showing Center of the Russian Air Force. He was killed in a mid-air collision whilst practicing for the 2009 MAKS Airshow.- Awards...
  
  , composer, pianist, producer
• Ilia Tkachenko
  Ilia Tkachenko
  Ilia Alexeyevich Tkachenko is a Russian ice dancer. With partner Ekaterina Riazanova, he is the 2011 Russian national silver medalist.- Early career :...
  
   (born 1986), Russian ice dancer
• Ivan Tkachenko (ice hockey)
  Ivan Tkachenko (ice hockey)
  Ivan Leonidovich Tkachenko was a Russian professional ice hockey winger who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League...
  
   (born 1979), Russian ice hockey player
• Ivan Tkachenko (politician), the Minister of Health and Social Security in Transnistria
• Mykhaylo Tkachenko, leader of the Ukrainian Communist Party
  Ukrainian Communist Party
  The Ukrainian Communist Party was an oppositional political party in Soviet Ukraine, from 1920 until 1925. Its followers were known as Ukapists , from the initials UKP.Socialist Sovereigns...
  
   of the 1920s
• Nadezhda Tkachenko
  Nadezhda Tkachenko
  Nadezhda Vladimirovna Tkachenko is a former pentathlete. She won an Olympic gold medal for the USSR in 1980. A three-time Olympian Tkachenko trained at VSS Avanhard in Donetsk Oblast.-References:*...
  
   (born 1948), Soviet pentathlete
• Oleksandr Tkachenko (footballer)
  Oleksandr Tkachenko (footballer)
  Oleksandr Mykolayovich Tkachenko is a retired Soviet football player and a current Ukrainian coach.-International career:...
  
   (born 1947), Soviet Union international footballer
• Oleksandr Tkachenko (politician) (born 1939), Ukrainian politician
• Petro Tkachenko
  Petro Tkachenko
  Petro Fedorovych Tkachenko was a prominent blind kobzar.- Biography :Petro Fedorovych Tkachenko-Halashko was one of the more outstanding kobzars of the Chernihiv region. He was born on December 21, 1878 in the village of Syniavtsi, Sosnytsia county near Chernihiv. At the age of 9 he became blind...
  
   (1878–1919), Ukrainian kobzar
• Serhiy Tkachenko
  Serhiy Tkachenko
  Serhiy Tkachenko is a Ukrainian footballer who plays for Ukrainian Premier League club PFC Sevastopol.-External links:*...
  
   (born 1979), Ukrainian footballer
• Vladimir Tkachenko
  Vladimir Tkachenko
  Vladimir Pyotrovich Tkachenko is a retired Ukrainian professional basketball player. Tkachenko won two Olympics Basketball medals and three FIBA World Championship medals with the Soviet Union national basketball team in a career that lasted 16 years. He was named both the Euroscar and the Mr...
  
  , retired USSR and Ukrainian basketball player

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• Today's Ukrainian surnames of Northern Donechchyna