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Polishchuk (Поліщук): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 739 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: 157 placesVolyn oblast: 4 placesLuhansk oblast: 5 placesDnipropetrovsk oblastDonetsk oblast: 5 placesZhytomyr oblast: 109 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 9 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 69 placesKyiv oblast: 69 placesKirovohrad oblast: 34 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 14 placesOdesa oblast: 14 placesPoltava oblastRivne oblast: 52 placesSumy oblast: 2 placesTernopil oblast: 21 placesKharkiv oblast: 1 placeKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 141 placesCherkasy oblast: 88 placesChernihiv oblast: 9 placesChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–3
  • 4–9
  • 14–52
  • 69–157

Selected oblast

Vinnytsia oblast

157 places with the surname Поліщук

All 157 places →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 15721%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 14119%
Zhytomyr oblast 10915%
Cherkasy oblast 8812%
Kyiv oblast 699%
Rivne oblast 527%
Kirovohrad oblast 345%
Ternopil oblast 213%
Mykolaiv oblast 142%
Odesa oblast 142%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 91%
Chernihiv oblast 91%
Donetsk oblast 51%
Luhansk oblast 51%
Volyn oblast 41%
Kherson oblast 31%
Sumy oblast 21%
Chernivtsi oblast 21%
Kharkiv 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

160 of 739 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 15724 of 157

and 133 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 14115 of 141

and 126 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 10911 of 109

and 98 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 889 of 88

and 79 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 697 of 69

and 62 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Rivne oblast 525 of 52

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

Kirovohrad oblast 343 of 34

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

Ternopil oblast 213 of 21

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

Mykolaiv oblast 143 of 14

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

Odesa oblast 143 of 14

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 93 of 9

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

Chernihiv oblast 93 of 9

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

Donetsk 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 →

Volyn oblast 43 of 4

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

Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Sumy oblast 2All 2 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Kharkiv 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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