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From the mid 18th to the mid 19th century, German immigrants settled in the region, turning what used to be steppe into farmland. In 1924, the Volga German ASSR was established, carved out of territory which used to belong to Samara and Saratov Gubernia. Capital was Pokrovsk, in 1931 renamed Engels. In 1941 the Volga German ASSR was dissolved, the Volga German population deported, mainly to Siberia. The territory of the Volga German ASSR was allocated to Saratov Oblast. Historical Atlas, Russia Page see also History of Russia, USSR |
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Article Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic,
Volga Germans, from Wikipedia Article Wolgadeutsche Republik, from Wikipedia German edition The Volga Germans Volga Germans, by Patrice Miller wolgadeutsche.net, site in Russian, some pages in German The Volga Germans, a Brief History, from LHM The Volga Germans, from University of Alberta |
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Historical Population Statistics by Administrative Division : Russia,
from : Population Statistics Flag, from FOTW Geographic-Administrative Map of the Volga-German ASSR (c. 1920 (!)), from Arwela; from wolgadeutsche.net, dated 1923, site in Russian Map : German-Russian Volga Area, by Mitch Roll The Deportation from the Autonomous Republic of the Volga Germans (1941, reports), from Memorial Society, Krasnoyarsk |
| REFERENCE |
Fred C. Koch, the Volga Germans (ad from Penn State UP Publications of American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Volga German Genealogy Books, from The Volga Germans Darrel Kaiser Books, from lulu.com |
