Zug was founded on 10 August 1767 by colonists who had been recruited by Baron Caneau de Beauregard. It was moved to its final location in 1770.
Today, what remains of the former colony of Zug is known as Yastrebovka.
The original colonists of Zug were Roman Catholic. A wooden church was constructed there in the Kontor style.
The congregation in Zug was served by the following priests:
- Philipp Becker (1895-1898)
- Johannes Wassinger (1898)
- Alexander Staub (1906-1914)
- Alexander Dornhof (1918-1919)
- Johannes Herrmann (1928)
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
|
|
|
|
| 1769 |
43
|
133
|
69
|
64
|
| 1773 |
43
|
157
|
84
|
73
|
| 1788 |
37
|
196
|
99
|
97
|
| 1798 |
40
|
238
|
125
|
119
|
| 1816 |
66
|
415
|
215
|
200
|
| 1834 |
106
|
783
|
406
|
377
|
| 1850 |
150
|
1,357
|
675
|
682
|
| 1857 |
195
|
1,420
|
714
|
706
|
| 1859 |
|
1,339
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
1,996
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
2,127
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,415**
|
1,212
|
1,203
|
| 1905 |
|
2,975
|
|
|
| 1910 |
448
|
3,216
|
1,645
|
1,571
|
| 1912 |
|
3,606
|
|
|
| 1920 |
526
|
3,634
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,958
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,247
|
|
|
| 1926 |
469
|
2,435***
|
1,187
|
1,248
|
| 1931 |
|
2,813****
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,405 were German.
**Of whom 2,433 (1,185 male & 1,248 female) were German living in 467 households.
***Of whom 2,433 were German.
****Of whom 2,803 were German.
- Gattung (Wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian
- Zug (Gattung), Russia (Kevin Rupp)
- Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764. Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 353.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 614.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II by Count Orlov, 14 February 1769.
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen - Katholischer Teil (Stuttgart: Selbstverlag Joseph Schnurr, 1980).
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
1798 Census of Zug
1834 Census of Zug
1857 Census of Zug
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Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Zug (1935).
Catholic Church in Zug.
Source: Volk auf dem Weg (2006).