Wiesenfeld
In 1846, Wiesenfeld was founded by colonists from Shcherbakovka and Oberdorf.
During the Soviet Era, Wiesenfeld was known as Collective Farm "October Revolution." Today it is called Avilovo.
Those settling in Wiesenfeld were Lutheran.
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Year
|
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 |
|
|
|
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| 1857 |
|
|
|
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| 1859 |
|
|
|
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| 1886 |
|
|
|
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| 1891 |
22
|
318
|
150
|
168
|
| 1894 |
29
|
335
|
173
|
162
|
| 1897 |
|
|
|
|
| 1904 |
|
202
|
|
|
| 1911 |
|
220
|
|
|
| 1920 |
|
350
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
310
|
|
|
| 1926 |
60
|
364
|
173
|
191
|
| 1931 |
|
412**
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,178 were German (552 male and 626 female).
**Of whom 395 were German.
Avilova (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- Herman, A. A. German Autonomy on the Volga, 1918-1941 (Saratov: Saratov University, 1994): 385.
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 32 & 311.
- Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 5-6.
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.
Map showing Wiesenfeld (1935).
A map of Wiesenfeld, hand-drawn by memory as of 1931. Completed in 2013 by Viktor Alexandrovich Blehm with assistance from Eduard Victorovich Blehm and David Victorovich Blehm.
Source: wolgadeutsche.net.
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