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Dobrovolskyi (Добровольський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Dobrovolsky · Dobrowolski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 290 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: 47 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 7 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 7 placesDonetsk oblast: 6 placesZhytomyr oblast: 36 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 8 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 10 placesKyiv oblast: 21 placesKyiv oblast: 21 placesKirovohrad oblast: 13 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 11 placesMykolaiv oblast: 11 placesOdesa oblast: 7 placesPoltava oblast: 1 placeRivne oblast: 9 placesSumy oblast: 3 placesTernopil oblast: 16 placesKharkiv oblast: 5 placesKherson oblast: 6 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 47 placesCherkasy oblast: 13 placesChernihiv oblast: 5 placesChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1–5
  • 6–8
  • 9–11
  • 13–47

Selected oblast

Vinnytsia oblast

47 places with the surname Добровольський

All 47 places →

Coverage: Vinnytsia oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 4716%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 4716%
Zhytomyr oblast 3612%
Kyiv oblast 217%
Ternopil oblast 166%
Kirovohrad oblast 134%
Cherkasy oblast 134%
Lviv oblast 114%
Mykolaiv oblast 114%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 103%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Rivne oblast 93%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 83%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 72%
Luhansk oblast 72%
Odesa oblast 72%
Donetsk oblast 62%
Kherson oblast 62%
Kharkiv oblast 52%
Chernihiv oblast 52%
Sumy oblast 31%
Poltava oblast 11%
Chernivtsi 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

73 of 290 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 4724 of 47

and 23 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 4712 of 47

and 35 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 369 of 36

and 27 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 215 of 21

and 16 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ternopil oblast 164 of 16

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

Kirovohrad oblast 133 of 13

and 10 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 133 of 13

and 10 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Lviv oblast 113 of 11

and 8 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Mykolaiv oblast 113 of 11

and 8 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 103 of 10

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

Rivne oblast 93 of 9

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 83 of 8

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 73 of 7

and 4 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 →

Odesa oblast 73 of 7

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

Donetsk oblast 63 of 6

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

Kherson oblast 63 of 6

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

Kharkiv oblast 53 of 5

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 →

Sumy oblast 3All 3 places
Poltava oblast 1All 1 place
Chernivtsi oblast 1All 1 place

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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