Alt-Zürich

Names: 
Alt-Zürich
Альт-Цюрих
Старый Цюрих
Цюриховский Старый
Татьяновка
Tatyanovka
Stakhanovo
Стаханово
Mother Colonies: 
History: 

Originally settled by colonists from Zürich, the khutor (farmstead) of Alt-Zürich was located 130 kilometers northeast of Engels on the left bank of the Bolshoi Kushum River.

Following the deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941, the settlement was renamed Stakhanovo.  Today, nothing remains of the former Volga German settlement of Alt-Zürich.

Church: 

The congregation in Alt-Zürich belonged to the Lutheran parish headquartered in Gnadenflur.

Population: 
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1888
21
115
66
49
1897
32
 
   
1910
37
303
163
140
1920
86*
620
 
 
1922
 
561
 
 
1926**
77
475
221
254
1931
 
523***
 
 

*Of which 85 households were German.
**Of whom 464 were German (72 households: 716 male & 248 female).
***Of whom 498 were German.

Sources: 

- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.

Map showing Alt-Zürich (1935).