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Rudnytskyi (Рудницький): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Rudnitsky · Rudnycki. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 149 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: 12 placesVolyn oblast: 2 placesLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblastDonetsk oblast: 3 placesZhytomyr oblast: 50 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 2 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 9 placesKyiv oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 2 placesKirovohrad oblast: 1 placeCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 15 placesMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblast: 4 placesPoltava oblastRivne oblast: 3 placesSumy oblastTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 7 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 21 placesCherkasy oblast: 2 placesChernihiv oblast: 4 placesChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1
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  • 3–7
  • 9–50

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Zhytomyr oblast

50 places with the surname Рудницький

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 5034%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2114%
Lviv oblast 1510%
Vinnytsia oblast 128%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 96%
Kharkiv oblast 75%
Luhansk oblast 43%
Odesa oblast 43%
Chernihiv oblast 43%
Donetsk oblast 32%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Rivne oblast 32%
Ternopil oblast 32%
Kherson oblast 32%
Volyn oblast 21%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 21%
Kyiv oblast 21%
Cherkasy oblast 21%
Kirovohrad oblast 11%
Mykolaiv oblast 11%
Chernivtsi 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

45 of 149 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Zhytomyr oblast 5026 of 50

and 24 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 2111 of 21

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

Lviv oblast 158 of 15

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

Vinnytsia oblast 126 of 12

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 94 of 9

and 5 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 →

Luhansk 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 →

Chernihiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Donetsk oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 3All 3 places
Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Volyn oblast 2All 2 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 2All 2 places
Kyiv oblast 2All 2 places
Cherkasy oblast 2All 2 places
Kirovohrad oblast 1All 1 place
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place
Chernivtsi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

3 entries in 3 regiments

  • Чигиринський
  • Переяславський
  • Полтавський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Яцько Рудницкийsotnia ОмелницкаяЧигиринський regimentp. 23
Семенъ Рудницкийsotnia БаришскаяПереяславський regimentp. 232
Петро Рудницкийsotnia ГаяцкаяПолтавський regimentp. 299

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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