Vishnevetsky
Vishnevetsky is a Ukrainian surname with the Polish equivalent as Wiśniowiecki. Other related names include Vishnevsky, Wiśniewski, or Wiśniowski.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Dmytro Vyshnevetsky (1516–1563), Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks
- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (born 1986), Russian-born American film critic and essayist
- Igor Vishnevetsky (born 1964), Russian poet
History
- House of Wiśniowiecki, a Polish princely family of Ruthenian-Lithuanian origin
Places
- Vyshnivets, formerly known as Wiśniowiec, an urban-type settlement in the Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine
See also
- Vishnevsky, similar Russian surname
- Wiśniewski, similar Polish surname
- Wiśniowiecki (surname), similar Polish surname
- Vyšniauskas, similar Lithuanian surname
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