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Kovalevskyi (Ковалевський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Kovalevsky · Kowalewski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 114 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: 5 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 11 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 1 placeDonetsk oblast: 11 placesZhytomyr oblast: 7 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 3 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 9 placesKyiv oblast: 9 placesKirovohrad oblast: 1 placeCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 3 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 7 placesTernopil oblast: 6 placesKharkiv oblast: 18 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 15 placesCherkasy oblastChernihiv oblast: 9 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–3
  • 5–7
  • 9–18

Selected oblast

Kharkiv oblast

18 places with the surname Ковалевський

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 1816%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1513%
Donetsk oblast 1110%
Luhansk oblast 1110%
Kyiv oblast 98%
Chernihiv oblast 98%
Zhytomyr oblast 76%
Sumy oblast 76%
Ternopil oblast 65%
Vinnytsia oblast 54%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 33%
Mykolaiv oblast 33%
Poltava oblast 33%
Odesa oblast 22%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 11%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 11%
Kirovohrad oblast 11%
Lviv oblast 11%
Rivne 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

17 of 114 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 18All 18 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1510 of 15

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 117 of 11

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

Luhansk oblast 117 of 11

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

Kyiv oblast 96 of 9

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

Chernihiv oblast 96 of 9

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

Zhytomyr oblast 74 of 7

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

Sumy oblast 74 of 7

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

Ternopil oblast 64 of 6

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

Vinnytsia oblast 53 of 5

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Poltava oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1All 1 place
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Kirovohrad oblast 1All 1 place
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place

Similar surnames in the index

Similar in spelling. That does not make the families related.

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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