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Kolisnyk (Колісник): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 313 towns and villages of 18 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: 35 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 18 placesDonetsk oblast: 14 placesZhytomyr oblast: 1 placeZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 11 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 5 placesKyiv oblast: 24 placesKyiv oblast: 24 placesKirovohrad oblast: 33 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 3 placesMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblastPoltava oblast: 13 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 14 placesTernopil oblast: 10 placesKharkiv oblast: 59 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 24 placesCherkasy oblast: 40 placesChernihiv oblast: 3 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1–3
  • 4–13
  • 14–18
  • 24–59

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Kharkiv oblast

59 places with the surname Колісник

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Coverage: Kharkiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 5919%
Cherkasy oblast 4013%
Vinnytsia oblast 3511%
Kirovohrad oblast 3311%
Kyiv oblast 248%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 248%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 186%
Donetsk oblast 144%
Sumy oblast 144%
Poltava oblast 134%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 114%
Ternopil oblast 103%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 52%
Luhansk oblast 41%
Lviv oblast 31%
Chernihiv oblast 31%
Mykolaiv oblast 21%
Zhytomyr 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

46 of 313 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 5924 of 59

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

Cherkasy oblast 4010 of 40

and 30 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 358 of 35

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

Kirovohrad oblast 338 of 33

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

Kyiv oblast 246 of 24

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 246 of 24

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 184 of 18

and 14 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 143 of 14

and 11 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 →

Poltava oblast 133 of 13

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 113 of 11

and 8 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 →

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 53 of 5

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

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

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

Lviv oblast 3All 3 places
Chernihiv oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Zhytomyr 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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