Morgentau

Names: 
Morgentau
Suetinovka
Sujetino
Suyetino
Суетиновка
Кисловодское
Нестеровка
Чумак
Chumak
Nesterovka
Kislovodskoye
Моргентау
Morgenthau
History: 

Morgentau was founded in 1859 on the banks of the Belaya Kuba River 19 kilometers west of Gmelinskaya by Lutheran colonists resettling from Galka, Shcherbakovka, Kraft, Stephan, Schwab, and Holstein.

Church: 

The Morgentau congregation founded in 1863 was an administrative Lutheran parish for the surrounding colonies.

Population: 
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1859
409
 
 
 
1883
 
1,502
 
 
1888
265
1,557
773
784
1891
 
 
 
 
1894
 
 
 
 
1897
 
1,455
738
717
1904
 
2,183
 
 
1908
309
2,665
1,318
1,347
1910
323
2,873
1,426
1,447
1912
 
 
 
 
1920
366*
2,403
 
 
1922
 
1,636
 
 
1923
 
1,638
 
 
1926**
342
1,597
762
835
1831
 
1,942***
 
 

*Of which 360 were German households.
**Of whom 1,577 (748 male and 829 female) were German living in 333 households.
***Of whom 1,927 were German.

Sources: 

- 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.
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 197.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.

Map showing Morgentau (1935).

Church building in Morgentau.
Source: Jorge Bohn.

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