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Hrabovskyi (Грабовський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Hrabovsky · Grabovsky · Hrabowski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 206 towns and villages of 23 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: 21 placesVolyn oblast: 3 placesLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 1 placeDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblast: 29 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 4 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 3 placesKyiv oblast: 15 placesKyiv oblast: 15 placesKirovohrad oblast: 7 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 16 placesMykolaiv oblast: 6 placesOdesa oblast: 3 placesPoltava oblast: 1 placeRivne oblast: 9 placesSumy oblast: 5 placesTernopil oblast: 12 placesKharkiv oblast: 2 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 46 placesCherkasy oblast: 9 placesChernihiv oblast: 2 placesChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1–2
  • 3
  • 4–9
  • 12–46

Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

46 places with the surname Грабовський

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Coverage: Khmelnytskyi oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 4622%
Zhytomyr oblast 2914%
Vinnytsia oblast 2110%
Lviv oblast 168%
Kyiv oblast 157%
Ternopil oblast 126%
Rivne oblast 94%
Cherkasy oblast 94%
Kirovohrad oblast 73%
Mykolaiv oblast 63%
All 23 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Sumy oblast 52%
Donetsk oblast 42%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 42%
Luhansk oblast 42%
Volyn oblast 31%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 31%
Odesa oblast 31%
Kherson oblast 31%
Kharkiv oblast 21%
Chernihiv oblast 21%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 11%
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

51 of 206 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 4624 of 46

and 22 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 2911 of 29

and 18 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 218 of 21

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

Lviv oblast 166 of 16

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

Kyiv oblast 155 of 15

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

Ternopil oblast 124 of 12

and 8 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 →

Cherkasy oblast 93 of 9

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

Kirovohrad 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 →

Sumy oblast 53 of 5

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

Donetsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 43 of 4

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

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

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

Volyn oblast 3All 3 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Kharkiv oblast 2All 2 places
Chernihiv oblast 2All 2 places
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1All 1 place
Poltava oblast 1All 1 place
Chernivtsi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

1 entry in 1 regiment

  • Уманський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Василь Грабовскийsotnia ЦибулевскаяУманський regimentp. 145

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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