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114 For instance, she examined the case of her great-grandmother Maria‘s cousin, Kudash Mykhailo (Pic.5), a lieutenant in the Red Army who contributed to the Soviet Union‘s victory in World War II. Upon first seeing his photograph in an online archive, she noticed a strong resemblance to her father. Initially, other family members did not recognize this similarity. However, after Olena provided documented evidence confirming that Kudash Mykhailo was indeed our relative, they acknowledged the resemblance, identifying it as a shared family trait. Picture 5. Mykhailo, the cousin of Olena Solovey’s great-grandmother Geographical Scope and Ancestry Hypotheses The study also revealed the wide dispersion of the family‘s roots. Olena discovered a branch of relatives in Azerbaijan on the maternal line, significantly expanding the geographical map of her heritage. An intriguing part of the study is the onomastic analysis of the surname "Kudash." Olena noted its rarity in Ukraine and its absence from historical Cossack registers. Combined with the family‘s history in the Poltava region—a territory with historical Turkic influences—she has formulated a hypothesis of possible Turkic