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Poplavskyi (Поплавський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Poplavsky · Poplawski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 137 towns and villages of 18 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: 17 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 5 placesDnipropetrovsk oblastDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblast: 21 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 1 placeIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 7 placesKyiv oblast: 7 placesKirovohrad oblast: 2 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 5 placesMykolaiv oblastOdesa oblast: 4 placesPoltava oblast: 1 placeRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 2 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 2 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 55 placesCherkasy oblast: 3 placesChernihiv oblast: 3 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

55 places with the surname Поплавський

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Coverage: Khmelnytskyi oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 5540%
Zhytomyr oblast 2115%
Vinnytsia oblast 1712%
Kyiv oblast 75%
Luhansk oblast 54%
Lviv oblast 54%
Donetsk oblast 43%
Odesa oblast 43%
Cherkasy oblast 32%
Chernihiv oblast 32%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 21%
Rivne oblast 21%
Sumy oblast 21%
Kharkiv oblast 21%
Kherson oblast 21%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 11%
Poltava oblast 11%
Ternopil 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

31 of 137 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 5532 of 55

and 23 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 2112 of 21

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

Vinnytsia oblast 179 of 17

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

Kyiv oblast 74 of 7

and 3 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 →

Lviv oblast 53 of 5

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

Donetsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Odesa oblast 43 of 4

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

Cherkasy oblast 3All 3 places
Chernihiv oblast 3All 3 places
Kirovohrad oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Sumy oblast 2All 2 places
Kharkiv oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 1All 1 place
Poltava oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

4 entries in 4 regiments

  • Корсунський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Миргородський
  • Ніжинський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Грыгорый Поплавскийsotnia ИмглѣевскаяКорсунський regimentp. 97
Грыцько ПоплавскийБілоцерківський regimentp. 113
Адамъ ПоплавскийМиргородський regimentp. 255
Лукянъ Поплавскийsotnia НежинскаяНіжинський regimentp. 327

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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