The daughter colony of Kana was founded in 1860 by colonists resettling from the Bergseite colonies of Shcherbakovka, Schwab, Dreispitz, Holstein, Dobrinka, and Moor. Its name comes from the title of one of the original colonist recruiters: Baron de Caneau de Beauregard.
In March 1930, there was a mass action against those identified as kulaks (wealthy) in Kana. Following the 1941 deportation of the Volga Germans, Kana kept its name.
The Lutheran congregation in Kana belonged to the parish headquartered in Gnadentau.
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Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1888 |
101
|
721
|
354
|
367
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
739*
|
368
|
371
|
| 1908 |
126
|
1,484
|
734
|
750
|
| 1910 |
183
|
1,535
|
785
|
750
|
| 1912 |
|
1,500
|
|
|
| 1920 |
201
|
1,349
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
740
|
|
|
| 1926** |
191
|
1,075
|
517
|
558
|
*Of whom 725 were German.
**Of whom 1,066 (511 male & 555 female) were German living in 188 households.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 312.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
50.437167, 46.635
Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Kana (1935).