For the first time in official documents surname Lutak is mentioned in historical Subcarpathian Rus in 1699 in Bereg Country - Lutak János and his son Vaszil 12-year-old from Nagy Ábránka (now Lokit, Irshava district, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine). And in 1704 the same János Lutak is mentioned already as kuruc in Mukachevo list of Greek Catholics who participated in Rákóczi's War of Independence (1703-1711).