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Ostrovskyi (Островський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Ostrovsky · Ostrowski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 261 towns and villages of 20 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: 31 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 10 placesDnipropetrovsk oblastDonetsk oblast: 7 placesZhytomyr oblast: 29 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 7 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 3 placesKyiv oblast: 14 placesKyiv oblast: 14 placesKirovohrad oblast: 12 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 14 placesMykolaiv oblast: 4 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblastRivne oblast: 6 placesSumy oblast: 3 placesTernopil oblast: 13 placesKharkiv oblast: 11 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 80 placesCherkasy oblast: 8 placesChernihiv oblast: 2 placesChernivtsi oblast: 4 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1–3
  • 4–7
  • 8–13
  • 14–80

Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

80 places with the surname Островський

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Coverage: Khmelnytskyi oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 8031%
Vinnytsia oblast 3112%
Zhytomyr oblast 2911%
Kyiv oblast 145%
Lviv oblast 145%
Ternopil oblast 135%
Kirovohrad oblast 125%
Kharkiv oblast 114%
Luhansk oblast 104%
Cherkasy oblast 83%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 73%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 73%
Rivne oblast 62%
Mykolaiv oblast 42%
Chernivtsi oblast 42%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 31%
Sumy oblast 31%
Kherson oblast 21%
Chernihiv oblast 21%
Odesa 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

67 of 261 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 8024 of 80

and 56 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 319 of 31

and 22 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 298 of 29

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

Kyiv oblast 144 of 14

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

Lviv oblast 144 of 14

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

Ternopil oblast 133 of 13

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

Kirovohrad oblast 123 of 12

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

Kharkiv oblast 113 of 11

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

Luhansk oblast 103 of 10

and 7 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 →

Donetsk oblast 73 of 7

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 73 of 7

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

Rivne oblast 63 of 6

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

Mykolaiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Chernivtsi oblast 43 of 4

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 3All 3 places
Sumy oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Chernihiv oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

3 entries in 3 regiments

  • Черкаський
  • Київський
  • Полтавський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Александеръ Островскийsotnia ОстровскогоЧеркаський regimentp. 43
Яцько Островскийsotnia ОвруцкаяКиївський regimentp. 214
Яцько Островскийsotnia ГаяцкаяПолтавський regimentp. 298

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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