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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.
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]
But, for the 600,000-odd Germans living in the Volga German ASSR, German was the language of local officials for the first time since 1881. As a result of the German invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, Stalin decided to deport the German Russians to internal exile and forced labor in Siberia and Central Asia.
The Volga (Russian: Волга, pronounced ⓘ) is the longest river in Europe and the longest endorheic basin river in the world. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of 3,531 km (2,194 mi), and a catchment area of 1,360,000 km 2 (530,000 sq mi). [1]
Since 1762, Russia called in German settlers. Some settled the Volga area northwest of Kazakhstan and therefore became known as Volga Germans. Others settled toward the coast of the Black Sea (Black Sea Germans, including Bessarabia Germans, Dobrujan Germans, and Crimea Germans) and the Caucasus area (Caucasus Germans). These settlements ...
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?
Pages in category "Volga German people" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. ... History of Germans in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union;
Labour Commune of Volga Germans in 1922. The Labour Commune of Volga Germans was a polity established in Russia following the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917. The Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic passed a decree which established this [1]