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Zelinskyi (Зелінський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Zelinsky · Zelinski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 229 towns and villages of 19 oblasts in the state memory books of 1917–1960. This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.

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Vinnytsia oblast: 48 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblastDonetsk oblast: 5 placesZhytomyr oblast: 23 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 4 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 15 placesKyiv oblast: 15 placesKirovohrad oblast: 1 placeCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 17 placesMykolaiv oblast: 6 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblastRivne oblast: 12 placesSumy oblastTernopil oblast: 12 placesKharkiv oblast: 2 placesKherson oblast: 8 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 51 placesCherkasy oblast: 9 placesChernihiv oblast: 1 placeChernivtsi oblast: 5 places
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–2
  • 4–5
  • 6–12
  • 15–51

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Khmelnytskyi oblast

51 places with the surname Зелінський

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 5122%
Vinnytsia oblast 4821%
Zhytomyr oblast 2310%
Lviv oblast 177%
Kyiv oblast 157%
Rivne oblast 125%
Ternopil oblast 125%
Cherkasy oblast 94%
Kherson oblast 83%
Mykolaiv oblast 63%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 52%
Chernivtsi oblast 52%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 42%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 42%
Luhansk oblast 42%
Odesa oblast 21%
Kharkiv oblast 21%
Kirovohrad oblast 11%
Chernihiv oblast 11%

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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

78 places with a ready parish description · 24 shown

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Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 5124 of 51

and 27 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Other oblasts18Show
Vinnytsia oblast 4816 of 48

and 32 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 238 of 23

and 15 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Lviv oblast 175 of 17

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

Kyiv oblast 155 of 15

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

Rivne oblast 124 of 12

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

Ternopil oblast 124 of 12

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

Cherkasy oblast 93 of 9

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

Kherson oblast 83 of 8

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

Mykolaiv oblast 63 of 6

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

Donetsk oblast 53 of 5

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

Chernivtsi oblast 53 of 5

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 43 of 4

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

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

Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Kharkiv oblast 2All 2 places
Kirovohrad oblast 1All 1 place
  • Мар’янівкаНовоукраїнський р-н (Маловисківський р-н до 2020)
Chernihiv oblast 1All 1 place

What these books can and cannot tell you

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  • Show the towns and villages where the surname was recorded in 1917–1960.
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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.

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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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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