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<jats:p>In the article, for the first time, the biographical documents of the first inhabitants of Khadzhybey (Odesa) in the end 18th the early 19th centuries are brought to the readers' attention. The documents are descriptions of residents who lived in Khadzhybey (Odesa), and then decided to settle in Budjak's fortresses – Akkerman, Kiliya, Izmail. The documents are in the funds of the Communal Institution "Izmail Archive" and the Russian State Military Historical Archive.
Biographies demonstrate the onomastics, the demographic composition of the family, the appearance of the origin of the inhabitants, their occupations and, even, the language of communication. As a result of a brief analysis, it can be found that the workers had different ethnicities, among them there were Ukrainians, Russians, Greeks, Moldovans; workers, mainly from Right-Bank Ukraine, Southern Ukraine and Bessarabia, moved there.</jats:p>