Medemtal

Names: 
Gusevka
Husevka
Medemtal
History: 

Medemtal was founded by Mennonite colonists from West Prussia in 1872 [some sources cite 1873 or 1874]. Medemtal was one of a group of Mennonite Colonies known as the Am Trakt Settlement. There were also Lutherans living in the colony.

Population: 
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1883
 
57
 
 
1889
 
114
 
 
1894
 
 
 
 
1897
30
219
118
101
1905
 
192
 
 
1910
31
247
127
120
1920
40
397
 
 
1922
 
174
 
 
1926
61
381
178
203
1931
 
854*
 
 

*Of whom, 836 were German.

Sources: 

- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005): 402.
- Dyck, Johannes J. Am Trakt: A Mennonite Settlement in the Central Volga Region. Winnipeg, MB: CMBC Publications, 1995.
- List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 334.
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): pp.28-83.

Map showing Medemtal (1935).