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Petrovskyi (Петровський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Petrovsky · Petrowski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 255 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: 43 placesVolyn oblast: 2 placesLuhansk oblast: 5 placesDnipropetrovsk oblastDonetsk oblast: 8 placesZhytomyr oblast: 27 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 5 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 10 placesKyiv oblast: 11 placesKyiv oblast: 11 placesKirovohrad oblast: 7 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 2 placesMykolaiv oblast: 4 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 2 placesRivne oblast: 7 placesSumy oblast: 6 placesTernopil oblast: 9 placesKharkiv oblast: 7 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 79 placesCherkasy oblast: 4 placesChernihiv oblast: 14 placesChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
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Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

79 places with the surname Петровський

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Coverage: Khmelnytskyi oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 7931%
Vinnytsia oblast 4317%
Zhytomyr oblast 2711%
Chernihiv oblast 145%
Kyiv oblast 114%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 104%
Ternopil oblast 94%
Donetsk oblast 83%
Kirovohrad oblast 73%
Rivne oblast 73%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 73%
Sumy oblast 62%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 52%
Luhansk oblast 52%
Mykolaiv oblast 42%
Cherkasy oblast 42%
Volyn oblast 21%
Lviv oblast 21%
Poltava oblast 21%
Chernivtsi 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

70 of 255 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 7924 of 79

and 55 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 4313 of 43

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

Zhytomyr oblast 278 of 27

and 19 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 144 of 14

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

Kyiv oblast 113 of 11

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 103 of 10

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

Ternopil oblast 93 of 9

and 6 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 →

Kirovohrad oblast 73 of 7

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

Rivne oblast 73 of 7

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

Kharkiv oblast 73 of 7

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

Sumy oblast 63 of 6

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 53 of 5

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

Luhansk oblast 53 of 5

and 2 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 →

Cherkasy oblast 43 of 4

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

Volyn oblast 2All 2 places
Lviv oblast 2All 2 places
Poltava oblast 2All 2 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa 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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