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Individual Volga German Colonies A map published in 1765 titled "A most accurate map of those parts of the Astracan government upon the river Wolga where in the new colonies are settled, taken from original drawings & observations made in a late survey of those countries".
The daughter colonies were inhabited by descendants of the original colonists. Some Volga Germans lived in other settlements including cities such as Engels, Samara, and Saratov. Read more about the colonists arrival in Russia. A map engraved by Pierre Francois Tardieu and issued in Paris in 1788.
Map of the Saratov District. Geographic Atlas of the Russian Empire (1823). French/Russian by Piadycheff. Note: Not all extant Volga German colonies are shown.
Maps for many of the Volga German colonies can be purchased through AHSGR in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The majority (about 95 percent) of those who settled in the colonies established by Catherine the Great along the Volga River were ethnic Germans from the war-ravaged German states where religious strife and economic hardship had created a climate ripe for immigration.
Map of German settlements in Russia by Karl Stumpp. Map showing the movements of Pugachev (1773-1775). Source: unknown. German migration to Russia in the 18th and 19th Century. Source: unknown.
Frank, a German Lutheran colony, was until October 1918 the Township center of the Frank Township, Atkarsk Region, Saratov Province, 110 versts from the city of Saratov and 94 versts south of the county town of Atkarsk.
With the dismantling of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the creation of an independent Kazkhstan, the ethnic Germans began a mass exodous from the region - back into Russia proper and to Germany. By 1999, the German population in Kazkhstan numbered only 353,441. Map of Kazakhstan. Source: unknown.
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): 353.
This map overlays several maps that show the location of Straub (top) before and after the inundation of the Volga Reservoir in 1961. Source: Vladimir Kakorin.