Includes the following communities
Bergthal (Bergtal Colonies)
Bertal (Bergtal Colonies)
Bodny (Bergtal Colonies)
Bodnya (Bergtal Colonies)
Petro-Pavlovka (Bergtal Colonies)
Respublika, Mariupolskii District, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Бергталь (Bergtal Colonies)
Бодни, Мариупольский район, Донецкая область, Украина
Республика, Мариупольский район, Донецкая область, Украина
History
Volga German families settled in the Ukrainian village of Bergtal. It had been originally settled by Mennonites as early as 1836, but later became a Catholic colony when the Mennonites migrated to Canada in the 1870s.
Today, the village is known as Respublika.
External Links
- Республика (Украина) (Russian Wikipedia)
The following Volga German families settled in the Ukrainian village of Bergtal: