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A TQFT may be interpreted as an HQFT with target space consisting of one point.  The paper under review generalizes the Frobenuis-Mednykh formula in the context of HQFT. This result was announced in \\textit{V. Turaev} [Math. Res. Lett. 16, No.~2--3, 515--529 (2009; Zbl 1175.57013)].  Fix a group epimorphism \\(q:G'\\to G\\) with finite kernel \\(\\Gamma.\\) Consider a homomorphism \\(g:\\pi=\\pi_1(W) \\to G.\\) A lift of \\(g\\) to \\(G'\\) is a homomorphism \\(g':\\pi \\to G'\\) such that \\(qg'=g.\\) The main result in the paper computes the number of such lifts:  \\[ |\\text{Hom}_g(\\pi,G')|=|\\Gamma|\\sum_{\\rho}(|\\Gamma|/\\text{dim} \\rho)^{-\\chi(W)}g^*(\\zeta_\\rho)([W]), \\]  where \\(\\rho\\) runs over the set of equivalence classes of irreducible finite-dimensional complex representations of \\(\\Gamma\\) such that \\(g(\\pi)\\) is in the stabilizer of \\(\\rho\\) and \\(g^*(\\zeta_\\rho)([W])\\) is the evaluation of a certain 2-dimensional cohomology class of \\(\\pi\\) on the fundamental class \\([W]\\).  When \\(g(\\pi)=1\\), the formula reduces to the Frobenuis-Mednykh formula. The result is proved using the idea of 2-dimensional HQFTs. It would be interesting to find a purely algebraic proof. In this paper, the result extends to orientable surfaces with boundary and to non-orientable surfaces. 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