---
title: "Mariupol"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/mariupol/
lang: en
work: "The Smud Family: A Jewish Family History from Ludza, Latvia to Entre Ríos, Argentina"
author: "Mateo Smud"
licence: CC0-1.0
summary: "A port city on the Sea of Azov. In its synagogue's register for 1899 the birth of Meyer —Marcos— Smud was recorded."
---
# Mariupol

A port city on the Sea of Azov. In its synagogue's register for 1899 the birth of Meyer —Marcos— Smud was recorded.

- Country today: Ukraine
- The family here: 1899
- Other spellings: Mariupol, Мариуполь, Маріуполь
- Coordinates: 47.1, 37.54

## What is known

The State Archive of Donetsk Oblast holds the registers of the synagogue of Mariupol, a port city on the Sea of Azov. In the register for 1899 there is a birth record that names the child, his father and his grandfather: Meyer, son of Falik, grandson of Kopel.

That document is what joined the Russian branch to the Argentine one. Why Marcos was born in Mariupol and not in Berdyansk, where the family lived, remains an open question.

## Who was here

- Marcos Smud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/marcos-smud/

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The Smud Family · genealogical research by Mateo Smud, published under CC0 1.0. Machine index: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/llms.txt