Neu-Boisroux
In 1848, Neu-Boisroux was founded by colonists resettling from Orlovskaya, Boisroux, Philippsfeld, and Paulskaya.
In 1954, the collective farm "Culture" was established in Neu-Boisroux.
Today, nothing remains of the former Volga German settlement of Neu-Boisroux.
The Lutheran congregation in Neu-Boisroux belonged to the parish headquartered in Fresental.
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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
|
Female
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| 1850 |
40
|
283
|
140
|
143
|
| 1857 |
39
|
308
|
161
|
147
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
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| 1886 |
|
|
|
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| 1891 |
|
|
|
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| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
596*
|
301
|
295
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
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| 1910 |
120
|
1,109
|
538
|
571
|
| 1912 |
|
1,000
|
|
|
| 1920 |
148
|
973
|
|
|
| 1926** |
133
|
633
|
310
|
323
|
*Of whom 593 were German.
**Of whom 630 (309 male & 321 female) were German living in 132 households.
Neu-Boaro (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): 17.
Map showing Neu-Boisroux (1935).
Architectural rendering of the Lutheran Church in Neu-Boisroux.
Source: Wolgadeutsche.net via Jorge Bohn.
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