Town Names
Hebrew and Russian and their Transliterations

from the Kremenets Vital Records
Dr. Ronald D. Doctor, Co-Coordinator, Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP
rondoctor@earthlink.net
11 November 2003

Town names in English follow the JewishGen ShtetlSeeker “Conventional” form, if available, or the “Native” form in the absence of a Conventional form. The Conventional form is the form “approved by the US Board of Geographical Names (BGN) for use with or instead of the local native name. These names are normally the common English name for a town.” The Native form is the “local official name form approved for use within the US Government by the BGN”. These forms usually differ from the form that appears in the vital records.

Occasionally the BGN forms are so different from the name in the vital records that the two cannot be recognized as the same town. In this case, the form as it appears in the vital records is in parentheses following the BGN form. In some cases, there are many towns with similar names and it is difficult to identify the town to which the vital record refers. We usually have selected the town geographically closest to Kremenets. If significant doubt remains, we have indicated that doubt with a question mark following the BGN name. Note that the Hebrew image sometimes has the Hebrew letter /mem/ as the first letter. This is not part of the name. It is a Hebrew prefix meaning from. The Town Name column also shows geographical coordinates and distance from Kremenets. The list currently contains 83 different town names.

 

Hebrew

Russian

Town Name

Baremel

50 28/25 12, 34.1 mi NW

 

Bazaliya (Bazilya)

4943 2628, 42.6 mi SE

Belogor’ye
(Lyakhovtsy, Lekhovits)

5000 2625, 31.8 mi ESE

Belozerka

49 46/26 11, 31.0 mi SE

Berdychiv (Berdichev)

4954 2835, 128 mi E

Berestechko
(Brestechko/Brestetsko)

5021 2507, 31.6 mi WNW

Berezets

49 36/23 41, 96.9 mi WSW

Bila Tserkova (Biale Tserkov)

49 47/30 07, 196.7 mi E

 

Bresli

?

Brest, Belarus (Brest Litovsk)

5206 2342, 163.4 mi NNW

Brody

5005 2509, 25.1 mi W

Chervonoarmeysk (Radzivilov)

5008 2515, 20.8 mi W

Demidovka

5025 2520, 27.6 mi NW

Dubno

5025 2545, 21.9 mi N

Dubrovitsa (Dishbrovits, Dobrovits)

4958 2950, 84 mi W

Fel'shtin (Gvardeyskoye)

4919 2643, 70.1 mi SE

Galicia

Horodlo, Poland

5053 2402, 91.6 mi NW

See Podluzhe

Kamenitsa

Kashivka (Kashovka)

5110 2521, 75.4 mi NNW

Katerinovka (Katerburg)

5000 2553, 10.1 mi SE

(Hebrew abbreviation)

Khodorov

4924  2419, 79 mi SW

Kletsk (Minsk Province)

5304 2638, 208.6 mi N

Klevan’

5045 2559, 46.4 mi NNE

Konstantynuvka (Konstantinopol, Konstantinova)

50 12/24 18, 63.1 mi W

 

Korets

50 37/27 10, 73.2 mi ENE

Kornitsa (Korenyts)

5003 2632, 36.4 mi E

 

Kovale

5010 2345, 87.2 mi W

Kozin

5016 2528, 16 mi NW

Kremenets

50 06/25 43

Krupets (Kruptsa/Krupits)

5009 2519, 18 mi W

Kul’chin (Kaltshin)

50 49/25 19, 52.5 mi NNW

 

Kulikov ?

5019 2449, 42.5 WNW

Kunev (Kinev)

5015 2622, 30.6 mi ENE

Lanovtsy (Lanovets)

4952 2605, 22.9 mi SE

Laszczow (Loshtchov), Poland

5032 2344, 92.4 mi WNW

 

 

Lemberg (see L’viv)

 

Litin

4920 2804, 117.5 mi ESE

Lobna (Loven, Lubny)

5138 2535, 106.0 mi N

Lublin (Liblin), Poland

5115 2234, 159 mi WNW

Ludmir

???

Luts’k

5045 2520, 47.9 mi NNW

L’viv (Lemberg)

4950 2400, 78.4 mi WSW

 

 

Lyakovtsy (Lyakhovets)

See Belogor’ye

Lyuboml (Libovne)

5114 2402, 107.5 mi NW

Lyubar (Leyber)

4955 2745, 91.1 mi E

Molodezhnoye (Mala Desne)

4500 3405, 524.8 mi SE

Mashcha ? (Matsh, Mezhucha)

5050 2624, 58.9 mi NNE

Mizoch

5024 2609, 28.2 mi NE

Muravitsa ? (Merovits)

5031 2535, 29.4 mi NNW

See Oleksinets

Novyy Oleksinets
4950 2530, 20.8 mi SSW

Oleksinets

(See Novyy Oleksinets and Staryy Aleksinets for coordinates)

Olyka

5043 2549, 42.8 mi N

Olyvka, Luts’k District

?

 

 

 

 

 

Orekhov, Poland ? (Orkhiva)

5137 1907, 306 mi WNW

Orkhov, Belarus

5132 2336, 135.3 mi NW

Orekhovo, Belarus

5139 2358, 131.3 mi NW

Yarychuv (Novyy Yarychev)

4955 2418, 64.1 mi W

Ostrog

5020 2631, 38.8 mi ENE

Pavlovka (Puritska, Poritska)

5037 2428, 46.6 mi WNW

Pochayev (Pitshaiv)

5001 2529, 11.1 mi WSW

 

Podberztsy

4948 2413, 69.8 mi WSW

Podkamen’

4956 2519, 21.2 mi WSW

Podluzhe (Kamenitsa)

5021 2542, 17.3 mi N

(See Pavlovka)

Poritsk/Poritska

Privetnoye (Svynikha)

5038 2445, 56.3 mi NW

 

Proskurov, Khmel’nitski Rayon

4925 2700, 74.2 mi SE

(See Chervonoarmeysk)

Radzivlov

Rakhmanov

5008 2606, 17.1 mi E

Rivne (Rovno)

5037 2615, 42.7 mi NNE

Satanov

4915 2616, 63.6 mi SSE

 

Sabichin (Shibashin)

5121 2734, 118.3 mi NE

Shumskoye

5007 2607, 17.8 mi E

Sokilets (Skalts/Skalits)

4853 2524, 85.2 mi S

Sokolov (Shklov)

4918 2523, 52.2 mi SSW

Solomna (Slonim)

4924 2621, 56 mi SSE

Starokonstantinov

4945 2713, 70.9 mi ESE

See Oleksinets

Staryy Aleksinets

4950 2533, 19.8 mi SSW

Stepan

5108 2618, 75.8 mi NNE, or

Stupno

5020 2600, 20.4 mi NE

Sudilkov

5010 2708, 62.9 mi E

 

 

Svynikha (see Privetnoye)

Teofipol

4950 2625, 36.1 mi ESE

Tiktin

?

Turiysk

5106 2432, 86.4 mi NW

Varkovichi (Varkovets)

5028 2558, 27.6 NNE

Verba

5017 2537, 13.4 mi NNW

or, Verben’

5023 2513, 29.5 mi NW

Vishnevets

4954 2545, 13.9 S

Vladimir-Volynskiy (Vladimir)

5051 2420, 79.9 mi NW

 

Vyshgorodok

4946 2558, 25.6 mi SSE

Yampol’

4958 2615, 25.4 mi ESE

Zel’va, Volkov Uyezd, Grodno Guberniya, Belarus

5309 2449, 214.1 mi N

 

Zheuvtsa / Zihovitsh

?

Zhytomyr, Bogunskiy Rayon

5015 2840, 130.9 mi E