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Vysotskyi (Висоцький): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Vysotsky · Wysocki. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 201 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: 19 placesVolyn oblast: 4 placesLuhansk oblast: 10 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 5 placesDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblast: 22 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 5 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 12 placesKyiv oblast: 12 placesKirovohrad oblast: 8 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 13 placesMykolaiv oblast: 4 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 2 placesRivne oblast: 8 placesSumy oblast: 8 placesTernopil oblast: 6 placesKharkiv oblast: 11 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 32 placesCherkasy oblast: 7 placesChernihiv oblast: 17 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 2
  • 4–7
  • 8–11
  • 12–32

Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

32 places with the surname Висоцький

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Coverage: Khmelnytskyi oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3216%
Zhytomyr oblast 2211%
Vinnytsia oblast 199%
Chernihiv oblast 178%
Lviv oblast 136%
Kyiv oblast 126%
Kharkiv oblast 115%
Luhansk oblast 105%
Kirovohrad oblast 84%
Rivne oblast 84%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Sumy oblast 84%
Cherkasy oblast 73%
Ternopil oblast 63%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 52%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 52%
Volyn oblast 42%
Donetsk oblast 42%
Mykolaiv oblast 42%
Odesa oblast 21%
Poltava oblast 21%
Kherson oblast 21%

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

37 of 201 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 3224 of 32

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

Zhytomyr oblast 228 of 22

and 14 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 197 of 19

and 12 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 176 of 17

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

Lviv oblast 135 of 13

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

Kyiv oblast 124 of 12

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

Kharkiv oblast 114 of 11

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

Luhansk oblast 103 of 10

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

Kirovohrad oblast 83 of 8

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Rivne oblast 83 of 8

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 83 of 8

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 73 of 7

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

Ternopil oblast 63 of 6

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 53 of 5

and 2 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 →

Volyn oblast 43 of 4

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

Donetsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Mykolaiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Poltava oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

4 entries in 3 regiments

  • Київський
  • Чигиринський
  • Білоцерківський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Семенъ Высоцкийsotnia ЖовнинскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 18
Ваеько ВисоцкийБілоцерківський regimentp. 109
Павелъ ВысоцкийКиївський regimentp. 209
Кирило Высоцкийsotnia БроварскаяКиївський regimentp. 209

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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