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Appearance. Russian Germans in North America are descended from the many ethnic Germans from Russia who immigrated to North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Russian Germans frequently lived in distinct communities and maintained German language schools and German churches. They were primarily Volga Germans from the lower Volga ...
Volga Germans. The Volga Germans (German: Wolgadeutsche, pronounced [ˈvɔlɡaˌdɔɪ̯t͡ʃə] ⓘ; Russian: поволжские немцы, romanized: povolzhskiye nemtsy) are ethnic Germans who settled and historically lived along the Volga River in the region of southeastern European Russia around Saratov and close to Ukraine nearer to the ...
Category: German-Russian culture in Colorado. 2 languages. ... Windsor, Colorado This page was last edited on 14 February 2013, at 17:50 (UTC). ...
Tsebrykove (Ukrainian: Цебрикове; Russian: Це́бриково, German: Hoffnungstal) is a rural settlement with some 2,900 inhabitants in the Rozdilna Raion, Odesa Oblast in Ukraine. It is located about 80 km (50 mi) east of Tiraspol and about 140 km (87 mi) northwest of Odesa. Tsebrykove hosts the administration of Tsebrykove ...
The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. Since the second half of the 19th century, as a consequence of the Russification policies and compulsory military service in the Russian Empire, large groups of Germans from Russia emigrated to the Americas (mainly Canada, the United States, Brazil and Argentina ...
Historically, many of the town's inhabitants were of Germans-from-Russia origin. Beginning in the early 1970s, as the population grew with industrialization, the ethnic makeup diversified. However, the town is still 89.8% white. The town's German-Russian heritage is still evident in the town's churches, festivals and traditions. [citation needed]
German-Russian culture in Colorado (4 P) Pages in category "German-American culture in Colorado" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The American Volga Relief Society was a German American non-governmental organization that provided relief and supplies to ethnically German settlements in the area around the Volga River. The group was active following World War I, during the period between 1921 and 1924. The organization officially disbanded in 1926, though private donations ...