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Zelenskyi (Зеленський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Zelensky · Zelenski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 156 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: 11 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 17 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 6 placesDonetsk oblast: 9 placesZhytomyr oblast: 5 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 5 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 12 placesKyiv oblast: 12 placesKirovohrad oblast: 10 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 6 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 10 placesTernopil oblast: 2 placesKharkiv oblast: 24 placesKherson oblast: 4 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 12 placesCherkasy oblast: 5 placesChernihiv oblast: 9 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 11–24

Selected oblast

Kharkiv oblast

24 places with the surname Зеленський

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 2415%
Luhansk oblast 1711%
Kyiv oblast 128%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 128%
Vinnytsia oblast 117%
Kirovohrad oblast 106%
Sumy oblast 106%
Donetsk oblast 96%
Chernihiv oblast 96%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 64%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Poltava oblast 64%
Zhytomyr oblast 53%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 53%
Mykolaiv oblast 53%
Cherkasy oblast 53%
Kherson oblast 43%
Rivne oblast 21%
Ternopil oblast 21%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 11%
Odesa 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

16 of 156 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 24All 24 places
Luhansk oblast 178 of 17

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

Kyiv oblast 126 of 12

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 126 of 12

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

Vinnytsia oblast 115 of 11

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

Kirovohrad oblast 105 of 10

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

Sumy oblast 105 of 10

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

Donetsk oblast 94 of 9

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

Chernihiv oblast 94 of 9

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 63 of 6

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

Poltava oblast 63 of 6

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

Zhytomyr 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 →

Mykolaiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Cherkasy oblast 53 of 5

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

Kherson oblast 43 of 4

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

Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Ternopil oblast 2All 2 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
  • СтояновеРоздільнянський р-н (Великомихайлівський р-н до 2020)
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

14 entries in 8 regiments

  • Київський
  • Полтавський
  • Уманський
  • Брацлавський
  • Черкаський
  • Корсунський
  • Кальницький
  • Ніжинський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Мисько ЗеленскийЧеркаський regimentp. 41
Сергѣй Зеленскийsotnia ОлшанскаяКорсунський regimentp. 104
Зѣнець Зеленскийsotnia ЦибулевскаяУманський regimentp. 144
Таврило Зеленскийsotnia АлександровскаБрацлавський regimentp. 167
Сахно Зеленскыйsotnia ВѣницкаяКальницький regimentp. 193

5 of 14 entries shown. 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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