The fromethnonymic and fromtoponymic family names of the 1756 Register of the Zaporozhian Host as a source of the study of the contacts of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Slavs nationalities in the middle of the XVIII century

The contacts between Zaporozhian Cossacks and Slav nationalities in the middle of the XVIII cen. are analyses in the article on the material of the fromethnonymic and fromtoponymic family names of the 1756 Register of the Zaporozhian Host. Also the author attempted to determine the ethnic origin of the bearers of these family names. But, in spite of the limited possibilities of the search of Russians, Byelorussians, Poles and South Slavs in the register and approximate character of receipted results, the text analysis shows that monument contains the irrefutable evidence of the existence of the interethnic contacts on the Zaporozhian territory in the middle of the XVIII cen.