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Kravets (Кравець): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 373 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: 71 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 9 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 12 placesDonetsk oblast: 10 placesZhytomyr oblast: 20 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 14 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 7 placesKyiv oblast: 22 placesKyiv oblast: 22 placesKirovohrad oblast: 19 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 32 placesMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblast: 6 placesPoltava oblast: 5 placesRivne oblast: 10 placesSumy oblast: 2 placesTernopil oblast: 25 placesKharkiv oblast: 10 placesKherson oblast: 8 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 39 placesCherkasy oblast: 37 placesChernihiv oblast: 10 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 8–9
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Vinnytsia oblast

71 places with the surname Кравець

All 71 places →

Coverage: Vinnytsia oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 7119%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3910%
Cherkasy oblast 3710%
Lviv oblast 329%
Ternopil oblast 257%
Kyiv oblast 226%
Zhytomyr oblast 205%
Kirovohrad oblast 195%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 144%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 123%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 103%
Rivne oblast 103%
Kharkiv oblast 103%
Chernihiv oblast 103%
Luhansk oblast 92%
Kherson oblast 82%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 72%
Odesa oblast 62%
Mykolaiv oblast 51%
Poltava oblast 51%
Sumy 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

105 of 373 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 7124 of 71

and 47 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 398 of 39

and 31 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 377 of 37

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

Lviv oblast 326 of 32

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

Ternopil oblast 255 of 25

and 20 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 224 of 22

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

Zhytomyr oblast 204 of 20

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

Kirovohrad oblast 194 of 19

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 143 of 14

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 123 of 12

and 9 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 103 of 10

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

Rivne oblast 103 of 10

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

Kharkiv oblast 103 of 10

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

Chernihiv oblast 103 of 10

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

Luhansk oblast 93 of 9

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

Kherson oblast 83 of 8

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 73 of 7

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

Odesa oblast 63 of 6

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

Mykolaiv 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 →

Sumy oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

30 entries in 11 regiments

  • Канівський
  • Уманський
  • Миргородський
  • Брацлавський
  • Кальницький
  • Полтавський
  • Корсунський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Чигиринський
  • Черкаський
  • Київський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Костя Кравецьsotnia БоровицкаяЧигиринський regimentp. 8
Иванъ Кравецьsotnia ЛазареваЧеркаський regimentp. 39
Мисько Кравецьsotnia ВолынцоваКанівський regimentp. 58
Иванъ Кравецьsotnia Маркова БажаненковаКорсунський regimentp. 87
Иванъ КравецьБілоцерківський regimentp. 110

5 of 30 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.

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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