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Vasyliev (Васильєв): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Vasiliev · Wasyliew. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Counted together with the feminine form Васильєва.

Recorded in 170 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: 18 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 19 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 4 placesDonetsk oblast: 32 placesZhytomyr oblast: 4 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 14 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 1 placeKirovohrad oblast: 11 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 10 placesOdesa oblast: 5 placesPoltava oblast: 3 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 10 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 12 placesKherson oblast: 6 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 11 placesCherkasy oblast: 3 placesChernihiv oblast: 4 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–2
  • 3–5
  • 6–11
  • 12–32

Selected oblast

Donetsk oblast

32 places with the surname Васильєв

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 3219%
Luhansk oblast 1911%
Vinnytsia oblast 1811%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 148%
Kharkiv oblast 127%
Kirovohrad oblast 116%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 116%
Mykolaiv oblast 106%
Sumy oblast 106%
Kherson oblast 64%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Odesa oblast 53%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 42%
Zhytomyr oblast 42%
Chernihiv oblast 42%
Poltava oblast 32%
Cherkasy oblast 32%
Rivne oblast 21%
Kyiv oblast 11%
Lviv 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

21 of 170 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Donetsk oblast 3224 of 32

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

Luhansk oblast 198 of 19

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

Vinnytsia oblast 188 of 18

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 146 of 14

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

Kharkiv oblast 125 of 12

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

Kirovohrad oblast 115 of 11

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 115 of 11

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

Mykolaiv oblast 104 of 10

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

Sumy oblast 104 of 10

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

Kherson oblast 63 of 6

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

Odesa oblast 53 of 5

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Zhytomyr 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 →

Poltava oblast 3All 3 places
Cherkasy oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Kyiv oblast 1All 1 place
Lviv 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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