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Zhuravel (Журавель): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Żurawel. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 155 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: 10 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 7 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 17 placesDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblast: 10 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 5 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 15 placesKyiv oblast: 15 placesKirovohrad oblast: 11 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblastPoltava oblast: 4 placesRivne oblast: 4 placesSumy oblast: 6 placesTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 12 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 7 placesCherkasy oblast: 17 placesChernihiv oblast: 14 placesChernivtsi oblast: 3 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1–3
  • 4–6
  • 7–11
  • 12–17

Selected oblast

Dnipropetrovsk oblast

17 places with the surname Журавель

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1711%
Cherkasy oblast 1711%
Kyiv oblast 1510%
Chernihiv oblast 149%
Kharkiv oblast 128%
Kirovohrad oblast 117%
Vinnytsia oblast 106%
Zhytomyr oblast 106%
Luhansk oblast 75%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 75%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Sumy oblast 64%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 53%
Donetsk oblast 43%
Poltava oblast 43%
Rivne oblast 43%
Mykolaiv oblast 32%
Ternopil oblast 32%
Chernivtsi oblast 32%
Kherson oblast 21%
Ivano-Frankivsk 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

14 of 155 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 17All 17 places
Cherkasy oblast 178 of 17

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

Kyiv oblast 157 of 15

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

Chernihiv oblast 147 of 14

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

Kharkiv oblast 126 of 12

and 6 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 →

Vinnytsia oblast 105 of 10

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

Zhytomyr oblast 105 of 10

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

Luhansk oblast 73 of 7

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 73 of 7

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

Sumy oblast 63 of 6

and 3 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 →

Donetsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Poltava oblast 43 of 4

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

Rivne oblast 43 of 4

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

Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Chernivtsi oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

6 entries in 4 regiments

  • Канівський
  • Брацлавський
  • Ніжинський
  • Чернігівський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Семенъ Журавельsotnia АндрееваКанівський regimentp. 70
Аврамъ Журавельsotnia СтаяцкаяКанівський regimentp. 75
Федоръ Журавельsotnia ТулчйнскаяБрацлавський regimentp. 159
Евхимъ Журавельsotnia НѣжинскаяНіжинський regimentp. 322
Лашко ЖуравельЧернігівський regimentp. 329

5 of 6 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.

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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