The Volga Germans website serves as a global online home for family and historical research of this unique ethnic group that migrated from Western Europe to Russia from 1764 to 1767.

Famous Volga Germans. Joseph Kessler- the 5th bishop of Tiraspol in 1904. Alfred Koch- born in Kazakhstan 1962, head of Russia's privatization agency.

2018年3月24日 · The most intense propaganda campaign has been launched in Germany (and there were Volga Germans). Most of the colonists were found in Frankfurt am main and Ulm. Willing to move to Russia went to Lubeck, and from there, first in St. Petersburg.

2020年7月11日 · Over time, these minority ethnic groups assimilated into the dominant German cultural of the colonies and all became known collectively as Wolgadeutsche (Volga Germans).

The letters of family and friends who had emigrated from Germany to the United States inspired several thousand Volga Germans to follow in their footsteps. The first group of Volga Germans arrived in Nebraska in 1874.

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.

These original Volga German colonists were joined in 1812 by 181 mostly German soldiers who had been a part of Napoleon's Army when it invaded Russia. A census of Russia taken in 1897 enumerated 1,790,439 ethnic Germans living in Russia.

2018年9月1日 · The article presents the material about famous people - the Germans of the Volga region, who have achieved major success in social and entrepreneurial activities, which became the property of...

2023年11月12日 · The Volga Germans, also known as the Volga Deutsch, were a unique group of German settlers who migrated and settled in the Volga region of Russia in the 18th century. This migration was part of a larger effort by the Russian Empire to develop and populate the vast territories along the Volga River.

The lists of the Volga Germans compiled by the Office of Guardianship show that among them were Lutherans, Catholics, Mennonites, Baptists, as well as representatives of other confessional currents and groups.