Katharinental
Katharinental is a daughter colony founded in 1860 by Volga German colonists resettling from Neu-Straub. It is located 18 kilometers east-northeast of Krasny-Kut.
Today, what remains of the former Volga German settlement of Katharinental is currently known as Yamskoye.
The original settlers of Katharinental were Lutheran. There was a large Lutheran church in Katharinental. During the Soviet era, it was used as a community center.
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Year
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Households
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Population
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
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Male
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Female
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| 1872 |
|
523
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
693
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
749
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
907*
|
460
|
447
|
| 1905 |
|
1,249
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
1,358
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
1,800
|
|
|
| 1920 |
182
|
1,119
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
804
|
|
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| 1926 |
177
|
851**
|
409
|
442
|
| 1931 |
|
1,024***
|
|
|
*Of whom 903 were German.
**Of whom 845 were German (174 households: 404 male & 441 female).
***Of whom 998 were German.
- Katharinental (wolgadeutsche.net) [in Russian]
- 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.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
Map showing Katharinental (1935).
Former church in Katharinental (2010).
Source: Olga Litzenberger via wolgadeutsche.net
Former church in Katharinental (2010).
Source: Olga Litzenberger via wolgadeutsche.net
Interior of the former Katharinental Church (2010).
Source: Olga Litzenberger via wolgadeutsche.net
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