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Zhuravskyi (Журавський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Zhuravsky · Żurawski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 104 towns and villages of 22 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: 13 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 1 placeDonetsk oblast: 1 placeZhytomyr oblast: 27 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 1 placeIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 1 placeKirovohrad oblast: 5 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 8 placesMykolaiv oblast: 4 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblastRivne oblast: 5 placesSumy oblast: 3 placesTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 8 placesKherson oblast: 1 placeKhmelnytskyi oblast: 9 placesCherkasy oblast: 4 placesChernihiv oblast: 3 placesChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–2
  • 3–4
  • 5–27

Selected oblast

Zhytomyr oblast

27 places with the surname Журавський

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 2726%
Vinnytsia oblast 1312%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 99%
Lviv oblast 88%
Kharkiv oblast 88%
Kirovohrad oblast 55%
Rivne oblast 55%
Mykolaiv oblast 44%
Cherkasy oblast 44%
Sumy oblast 33%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Ternopil oblast 33%
Chernihiv oblast 33%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 22%
Luhansk oblast 22%
Volyn oblast 11%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 11%
Donetsk oblast 11%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 11%
Kyiv oblast 11%
Odesa oblast 11%
Kherson 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

26 of 104 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Zhytomyr oblast 2724 of 27

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

Vinnytsia oblast 1310 of 13

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 96 of 9

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

Lviv oblast 86 of 8

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

Kharkiv oblast 86 of 8

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

Kirovohrad oblast 53 of 5

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

Rivne oblast 53 of 5

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

Mykolaiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Cherkasy oblast 43 of 4

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

Sumy oblast 3All 3 places
Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Chernihiv oblast 3All 3 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1All 1 place
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Donetsk oblast 1All 1 place
Zaporizhzhia oblast 1All 1 place
Kyiv oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Kherson oblast 1All 1 place
Chernivtsi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

3 entries in 2 regiments

  • Кальницький
  • Чигиринський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Андрѣй Журавскийsotnia ЖаботинскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 12
Василь Журавскийsotnia ЖивотовскаяКальницький regimentp. 182
Демко Журавскыйsotnia ЖивотовскаяКальницький regimentp. 183

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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