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Kolisnyk (Колісник): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 313 towns and villages of 18 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: 35 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 18 placesDonetsk oblast: 14 placesZhytomyr oblast: 1 placeZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 11 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 5 placesKyiv oblast: 24 placesKyiv oblast: 24 placesKirovohrad oblast: 33 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 3 placesMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblastPoltava oblast: 13 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 14 placesTernopil oblast: 10 placesKharkiv oblast: 59 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 24 placesCherkasy oblast: 40 placesChernihiv oblast: 3 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–3
  • 4–13
  • 14–18
  • 24–59

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Kharkiv oblast

59 places with the surname Колісник

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 5919%
Cherkasy oblast 4013%
Vinnytsia oblast 3511%
Kirovohrad oblast 3311%
Kyiv oblast 248%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 248%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 186%
Donetsk oblast 144%
Sumy oblast 144%
Poltava oblast 134%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 114%
Ternopil oblast 103%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 52%
Luhansk oblast 41%
Lviv oblast 31%
Chernihiv oblast 31%
Mykolaiv oblast 21%
Zhytomyr 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

46 places with a ready parish description · 24 shown

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Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 5924 of 59

and 35 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Other oblasts17Show
Cherkasy oblast 4010 of 40

and 30 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 358 of 35

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

Kirovohrad oblast 338 of 33

and 25 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 246 of 24

and 18 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 246 of 24

and 18 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 184 of 18

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

Donetsk oblast 143 of 14

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

Sumy oblast 143 of 14

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

Poltava oblast 133 of 13

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 113 of 11

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

Ternopil oblast 103 of 10

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 53 of 5

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

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

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

Lviv oblast 3All 3 places
Chernihiv oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Zhytomyr 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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