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Berezhnyi (Бережний): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Berezhny · Bereżnyi. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Counted together with the feminine form Бережна.

Recorded in 176 towns and villages of 19 oblasts in the state memory books of 1917–1960. This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.

The index covers only the source material processed so far. An absent place does not mean the surname was never used there; a shared surname does not establish family origin or kinship.

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Vinnytsia oblast: 2 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 22 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 15 placesDonetsk oblast: 23 placesZhytomyr oblast: 1 placeZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 9 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 6 placesKyiv oblast: 6 placesKirovohrad oblast: 6 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 8 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 23 placesTernopil oblast: 2 placesKharkiv oblast: 31 placesKherson oblast: 8 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 3 placesCherkasy oblast: 3 placesChernihiv oblast: 9 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1
  • 2–3
  • 6–9
  • 15–31

Selected oblast

Kharkiv oblast

31 places with the surname Бережний

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 3118%
Donetsk oblast 2313%
Sumy oblast 2313%
Luhansk oblast 2212%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 159%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 95%
Chernihiv oblast 95%
Poltava oblast 85%
Kherson oblast 85%
Kyiv oblast 63%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 63%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 32%
Cherkasy oblast 32%
Vinnytsia oblast 21%
Mykolaiv oblast 21%
Rivne oblast 21%
Ternopil oblast 21%
Zhytomyr oblast 11%
Odesa oblast 11%

Each oblast name opens its coverage page: parishes, books and what has been digitized.

Years of the sources

These books concern 1917–1960. Families in the 19th century were recorded in parish registers. Those are what we read, with a frame number beside every name.

Memory books 1917–1960

  • “Rehabilitated by History” («Реабілітовані історією»)1917–1960
  • National Book of Memory of Holodomor Victims1932–1933

Places with a ready parish description

6 of 176 places

Parish, books and what has been digitized: open a place.

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 3124 of 31

and 7 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 2310 of 23

and 13 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 2310 of 23

and 13 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 2210 of 22

and 12 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 156 of 15

and 9 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 94 of 9

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 94 of 9

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 83 of 8

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kherson oblast 83 of 8

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 63 of 6

and 3 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 63 of 6

and 3 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 3All 3 places
Cherkasy oblast 3All 3 places
Vinnytsia oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Ternopil oblast 2All 2 places
Zhytomyr oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

7 entries in 5 regiments

  • Кропивнянський
  • Прилуцький
  • Чигиринський
  • Переяславський
  • Полтавський

The same surname in 1649 does not by itself mean this was your ancestor.

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Демко Бережныйsotnia ОловятинскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 14
Бережныйsotnia ЯготинскаяПереяславський regimentp. 225
Андрѣй Бережныйsotnia АрклийскаяКропивнянський regimentp. 241
Степанъ Бережныйsotnia БорковскаяПолтавський regimentp. 291
Карпъ Бережныйsotnia СрибранскаяПрилуцький regimentp. 309

5 of 7 entries shown. Names and sotnias as spelled in the 1875 edition of the register (Moscow, edited by O. M. Bodianskyi); "p." is the page of that edition.

What these books can and cannot tell you

They can

  • Show the towns and villages where the surname was recorded in 1917–1960.
  • Suggest which oblast to start the search in.

They cannot

  • This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.
  • An absent place does not mean the surname was never used there.
  • A shared surname does not establish family origin or kinship.

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Source: state memory books, «Реабілітовані історією» and the National Book of Memory of the Victims of the Holodomor. We publish surnames only: no first names, dates or fates.

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