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Sichelberg

Names
Martiazhka
Martijeschka
Martiyeshka
Sichelberg
Serpogorskoye
Серпогорское
Зихельберг
Мартишка
Мортяжка
Ново-Цирков
Neu-Zirkow
Mother Colonies
History

Sichelberg was founded in 1849 by colonists resettling from the colonies of Basel and Zürich.

Today, what remains of Sichelberg is known as Serpogorskoye.

Church

The colonists who settled in Sichelberg were Lutheran.

Surnames
Population
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1850
 

227

 
 
1857  
307
 
 
1859
 
 
 
 
1883
 
687
 
 
1889
 
680
 
 
1894
 
 
 
 
1897
 
849*
435
414
1904
 
1,090
 
 
1910
 
 
 
 
1912
 
1,416
 
 
1920
201
1,202
 
 
1922   983    
1923   956    
1926
162
864**
418
446
1931   1,005***    

*Of whom 842 were German.
**Of whom 861 were German (161 households: 417 male & 444 female).
***Of whom 997 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): 313.
- 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.

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