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.
|
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.
Mendemtal (wolgadeutsche.net)
- 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.
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Map showing Medemtal (1935).