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Borovskyi (Боровський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Borovsky · Borowski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 119 towns and villages of 21 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: 13 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 3 placesDnipropetrovsk oblastDonetsk oblast: 6 placesZhytomyr oblast: 19 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 4 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 1 placeKirovohrad oblast: 7 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 3 placesMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 4 placesPoltava oblast: 1 placeRivne oblast: 9 placesSumy oblast: 2 placesTernopil oblast: 8 placesKharkiv oblast: 9 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 16 placesCherkasy oblast: 2 placesChernihiv oblast: 5 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Selected oblast

Zhytomyr oblast

19 places with the surname Боровський

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 1916%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1613%
Vinnytsia oblast 1311%
Rivne oblast 98%
Kharkiv oblast 98%
Ternopil oblast 87%
Kirovohrad oblast 76%
Donetsk oblast 65%
Chernihiv oblast 54%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 43%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Odesa oblast 43%
Luhansk oblast 33%
Lviv oblast 33%
Kherson oblast 33%
Mykolaiv oblast 22%
Sumy oblast 22%
Cherkasy oblast 22%
Volyn oblast 11%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 11%
Kyiv oblast 11%
Poltava 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

25 of 119 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Zhytomyr oblast 19All 19 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1610 of 16

and 6 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 138 of 13

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

Rivne oblast 96 of 9

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

Kharkiv oblast 96 of 9

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

Ternopil oblast 85 of 8

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

Kirovohrad oblast 74 of 7

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

Donetsk oblast 64 of 6

and 2 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 53 of 5

and 2 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 43 of 4

and 1 place more in the oblast · all in the search →

Odesa oblast 43 of 4

and 1 place more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 3All 3 places
Lviv oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Sumy oblast 2All 2 places
Cherkasy oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Kyiv oblast 1All 1 place
Poltava oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

1 entry in 1 regiment

  • Кальницький

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Павло БоровскийКальницький regimentp. 191

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.

Similar surnames in the index

Similar in spelling. That does not make the families related.

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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