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Hurskyi (Гурський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Hursky · Gursky · Hurski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 163 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: 24 placesVolyn oblast: 5 placesLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 2 placesDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblast: 18 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 1 placeIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 11 placesKyiv oblast: 11 placesKirovohrad oblast: 2 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 14 placesMykolaiv oblast: 4 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblastRivne oblast: 7 placesSumy oblastTernopil oblast: 6 placesKharkiv oblast: 4 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 48 placesCherkasy oblast: 4 placesChernihiv oblast: 4 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 11–48

Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

48 places with the surname Гурський

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Coverage: Khmelnytskyi oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 4829%
Vinnytsia oblast 2415%
Zhytomyr oblast 1811%
Lviv oblast 149%
Kyiv oblast 117%
Rivne oblast 74%
Ternopil oblast 64%
Volyn oblast 53%
Donetsk oblast 42%
Mykolaiv oblast 42%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 42%
Cherkasy oblast 42%
Chernihiv oblast 42%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 21%
Kirovohrad oblast 21%
Luhansk oblast 21%
Odesa oblast 21%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 11%
Ivano-Frankivsk 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

54 of 163 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 4824 of 48

and 24 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 2411 of 24

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

Zhytomyr oblast 188 of 18

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

Lviv oblast 146 of 14

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

Kyiv oblast 115 of 11

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

Rivne oblast 73 of 7

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

Ternopil oblast 63 of 6

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

Volyn 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 →

Mykolaiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Kharkiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Cherkasy oblast 43 of 4

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

Chernihiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 2All 2 places
Kirovohrad oblast 2All 2 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 1All 1 place
Ivano-Frankivsk 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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