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Drozd (Дрозд): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Recorded in 107 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: 10 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblastDnipropetrovsk oblast: 2 placesDonetsk oblast: 5 placesZhytomyr oblast: 11 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 2 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 4 placesKirovohrad oblast: 2 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 11 placesMykolaiv oblastOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 6 placesRivne oblast: 8 placesSumy oblast: 4 placesTernopil oblast: 7 placesKharkiv oblast: 3 placesKherson oblast: 4 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 10 placesCherkasy oblast: 1 placeChernihiv oblast: 15 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Chernihiv oblast

15 places with the surname Дрозд

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Coverage: Chernihiv oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 1514%
Zhytomyr oblast 1110%
Lviv oblast 1110%
Vinnytsia oblast 109%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 109%
Rivne oblast 87%
Ternopil oblast 77%
Poltava oblast 66%
Donetsk oblast 55%
Kyiv oblast 44%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Sumy oblast 44%
Kherson oblast 44%
Kharkiv oblast 33%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 22%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 22%
Kirovohrad oblast 22%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 11%
Odesa oblast 11%
Cherkasy 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

16 of 107 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 15All 15 places
Zhytomyr oblast 118 of 11

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

Lviv oblast 118 of 11

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

Vinnytsia oblast 107 of 10

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 107 of 10

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

Rivne oblast 85 of 8

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

Ternopil oblast 75 of 7

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

Poltava oblast 64 of 6

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

Donetsk oblast 53 of 5

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

Kyiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Sumy oblast 43 of 4

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

Kherson oblast 43 of 4

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

Kharkiv oblast 3All 3 places
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 2All 2 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 2All 2 places
Kirovohrad oblast 2All 2 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Cherkasy oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

7 entries in 2 regiments

  • Білоцерківський
  • Уманський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Демко ДроздъБілоцерківський regimentp. 108
Петро ДроздъБілоцерківський regimentp. 108
Васько ДроздъБілоцерківський regimentp. 115
Иванъ ДроздъБілоцерківський regimentp. 122
Панасъ Дроздъsotnia ДутянскаяУманський regimentp. 147

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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