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Cherniavskyi (Чернявський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Cherniavsky · Czerniawski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 176 towns and villages of 22 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: 10 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 7 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 12 placesDonetsk oblast: 16 placesZhytomyr oblast: 11 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 12 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 5 placesKyiv oblast: 5 placesKirovohrad oblast: 8 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 7 placesMykolaiv oblast: 6 placesOdesa oblast: 5 placesPoltava oblast: 2 placesRivne oblast: 4 placesSumy oblast: 8 placesTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 7 placesKherson oblast: 8 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 25 placesCherkasy oblast: 8 placesChernihiv oblast: 6 placesChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 10–25

Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

25 places with the surname Чернявський

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Coverage: Khmelnytskyi oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2514%
Donetsk oblast 169%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 127%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 127%
Zhytomyr oblast 116%
Vinnytsia oblast 106%
Kirovohrad oblast 85%
Sumy oblast 85%
Kherson oblast 85%
Cherkasy oblast 85%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Luhansk oblast 74%
Lviv oblast 74%
Kharkiv oblast 74%
Mykolaiv oblast 63%
Chernihiv oblast 63%
Kyiv oblast 53%
Odesa oblast 53%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 42%
Rivne oblast 42%
Ternopil oblast 32%
Poltava oblast 21%
Chernivtsi oblast 21%

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

18 of 176 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 2524 of 25

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

Donetsk oblast 167 of 16

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 125 of 12

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 125 of 12

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

Zhytomyr oblast 115 of 11

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

Vinnytsia oblast 104 of 10

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

Kirovohrad oblast 83 of 8

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

Sumy 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 →

Cherkasy oblast 83 of 8

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

Luhansk oblast 73 of 7

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Lviv oblast 73 of 7

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 73 of 7

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Mykolaiv oblast 63 of 6

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

Chernihiv oblast 63 of 6

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

Kyiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Odesa oblast 53 of 5

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Rivne oblast 43 of 4

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

Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Poltava oblast 2All 2 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

5 entries in 3 regiments

  • Уманський
  • Кальницький
  • Прилуцький

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Лесько Чернявскийsotnia ЦибулевскаяУманський regimentp. 144
Яцко Чернявскийsotnia ЦибулевскаяУманський regimentp. 144
Костя Чернявскийsotnia ЦибулевскаяУманський regimentp. 144
Лазко Чернявскыйsotnia БабинскаяКальницький regimentp. 192
Грыцько Чернявскыйsotnia ПереволочинскаяПрилуцький regimentp. 312

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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