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The Volga Germans (German: Wolgadeutsche, pronounced [ˈvɔlɡaˌdɔʏtʃə] ⓘ; 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 south.
Official centennial history of the Volga-German settlements in Ellis and Rush counties in Kansas, 1876–1976. Volga-German Centennial Association. Gross, Fred William. "Type and Nature of German Publications In North Dakota," Heritage Review (1993) 23#4 pp 34–38. Iseminger, Gordon L. "Are We Germans, or Russians, or Americans?
The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 marked the end of the Volga German ASSR. On 28 August 1941, the republic was formally abolished and, out of fear they could act as German collaborators, all Volga Germans were exiled to the Kazakh SSR, Altai and Siberia. [4] Many were interned in labor camps merely due to their heritage. [2]
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4.1 Location map templates. 4.2 Creating new map definitions. Toggle the table of contents. Module: Location map/data/Russia Volga Federal District. 6 languages.
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English: The area of the former Volga German ASSR (in green) within the Saratov and Volgograd oblasts of the post-Soviet Russian Federation. Русский: АССР Немцев Поволжья отмечена зеленым цветом на карте Волгоградской и Саратовской областей России.
The Volga region is home to a German minority group, the Volga Germans. Catherine the Great had issued a manifesto in 1763 inviting all foreigners to come and populate the region, offering them numerous incentives to do so. [44] This was partly to develop the region but also to provide a buffer zone between the Russians and the Mongols to the east.