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Volga German History. The Volga Germans comprised a community of ethnic Germans who undertook migration Russia during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Russian government, under the leadership of Catherine the Great, invited them to settle in the area and contribute to the development of agricultural land along the fertile banks of the Volga River.
Ultimately, both World War I and II proved the death knell for the Volga German community. In the First World War, tsarist suspicion turned into outright hostility and violence towards the Germans within the state. In 1915 and 1916, the state passed expropriation decrees that targeted land owned by enemy aliens.
5 days ago · The Volga Germans never returned to the Volga region in their old numbers. They were not allowed to settle in the area for decades. After World War II, many survivors remained in the Ural Mountains , Siberia , Kazakhstan (1.4% of today's Kazakh population are recognized as Germans - around 200,000), Kyrgyzstan , and Uzbekistan (about 16,000 or ...
German migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) : origins and destinations. Lincoln, Neb.: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia. Mai, B. A. (1998). Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to colonies on the Volga 1766-1767. Lincoln, Neb.: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia. Pleve, I. R., & Eisfeld, Alfred.
Jul 30, 2019 · The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764. Translated by Adam Giesinger. Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991. Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists ...
The story of the Volga Germans and their adventures in North and South America from 1874 to the present is a warm and vibrant one. Both laymen and scholars will find it rewarding. Fred C. Koch, who came to the U.S.A. from the Volga German colony of Kolb at the age of five, has spent his entire career on newspapers in the State of Washington: in ...
Mar 28, 2021 · Vasily Grigorievich Zaitsev – sniper of the 62nd Army of the Stalingrad Front, Hero of the Soviet Union. During the Battle of Stalingrad from November 10 to December 17, 1942, he eliminated 225 soldiers and officers of the German army and their allies, including 11 snipers. Vasily Grigorievich Zaitsev was born on March 23, 1915 in the village ...
