Since 1581
CLAN
KOLOMIETS
445 years of documented history
A Cossack sabre and a Jewish book
Cossack line
Kolomiets
Poltava region, Ukraine
Cossack officer elite of the Lubny regiment. Held the village of Bereztoche from 1771. Haplogroup E-V13 — Balkan origin, possibly through the Greek colonies of the Black Sea coast.
Ashkenazi line
Flaksman
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Roots in the town of Liozno, Vitebsk province. Beyond the Pale of Settlement — with special rights. 51.7% Ashkenazi DNA. The X chromosome is 98.3% Ashkenazi.
Our story
The family begins in 1581, when a Cossack named Kolomiets first entered the register of the Zaporozhian Sich.
A century and a half later the Kolomiets were Cossack officers of the Lubny regiment, owners of the village of Bereztoche in the Poltava region. The 20th century carried the family through dekulakization, the Great Terror and occupation: Demyan Romanovich was sentenced in 1937 to ten years and rehabilitated only in 1965. His son Mikhail left Ukraine for Omsk, where a generation later the father — journalist Andrey — was born.
On the maternal side are the Flaksmans, an Ashkenazi family from Nizhny Novgorod, beyond the Pale of Settlement. DNA confirms both bloods: 51.7% Ashkenazi roots and the paternal haplogroup E‑V13 of Balkan origin, rare for Ukrainians. In 2025 Veniamin was born — this archive is gathered for him and his descendants.