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Kolesnyk (Колесник): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Kolesnik. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 339 towns and villages of 21 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: 52 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 19 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 15 placesDonetsk oblast: 8 placesZhytomyr oblast: 34 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 15 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 3 placesKyiv oblast: 27 placesKyiv oblast: 27 placesKirovohrad oblast: 15 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 2 placesMykolaiv oblast: 10 placesOdesa oblast: 5 placesPoltava oblast: 5 placesRivne oblast: 11 placesSumy oblast: 14 placesTernopil oblast: 10 placesKharkiv oblast: 29 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 32 placesCherkasy oblast: 8 placesChernihiv oblast: 20 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Vinnytsia oblast

52 places with the surname Колесник

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 5215%
Zhytomyr oblast 3410%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 329%
Kharkiv oblast 299%
Kyiv oblast 278%
Chernihiv oblast 206%
Luhansk oblast 196%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 154%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 154%
Kirovohrad oblast 154%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Sumy oblast 144%
Rivne oblast 113%
Mykolaiv oblast 103%
Ternopil oblast 103%
Donetsk oblast 82%
Cherkasy oblast 82%
Odesa oblast 51%
Poltava oblast 51%
Kherson oblast 51%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 31%
Lviv 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

60 of 339 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 5224 of 52

and 28 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 348 of 34

and 26 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 327 of 32

and 25 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 296 of 29

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

Kyiv oblast 276 of 27

and 21 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 204 of 20

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

Luhansk oblast 194 of 19

and 15 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 153 of 15

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 153 of 15

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

Kirovohrad oblast 153 of 15

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

Sumy oblast 143 of 14

and 11 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Rivne oblast 113 of 11

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

Mykolaiv oblast 103 of 10

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

Ternopil oblast 103 of 10

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

Donetsk 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 →

Odesa oblast 53 of 5

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

Poltava oblast 53 of 5

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

Kherson oblast 53 of 5

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 3All 3 places
Lviv oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

14 entries in 7 regiments

  • Брацлавський
  • Канівський
  • Кальницький
  • Полтавський
  • Чигиринський
  • Уманський
  • Прилуцький

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Антонъ Колесникъsotnia БужинскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 7
Микита Колесникъsotnia КлимоваКанівський regimentp. 67
Герасимъ Колесникъsotnia РомановскаяУманський regimentp. 150
Дацько Колесникъsotnia БраиловскаяБрацлавський regimentp. 164
Апдрѣй Колесникъsotnia БабинскаяКальницький regimentp. 192

5 of 14 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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