Kostanai, Kostanai Region, Kazakhstan

Founded in 1879, Kostanai is located on the Tobol River in northern Kazakhstan near the Russian boarder.

The original name of the settlement was Nikolayevsk. In 1895, it was renamed to Kustanai. Its original settlers were mostly farmers and the region is still heavily involved in agricultural production. On 17 June 1997, the name was changed to Kostanai.

On 9 September 1941, two deportation trains (Nos. 803 & 804) arrived from the Volga Region loaded with ethnic German families. Most of them were from the Wiesenseite daughter colonies of Ährenfeld, Gnadentau, and Neu-Beideck. They were resettled into neighboring villages.

Those families who arrived on 9 September 1941 include:

Adler from Neu-Beideck
Ahlbrandt from Neu-Beideck
Becker from Neu-Beideck
Dahmer from Neu-Beideck
Deines from Neu-Beideck
Funk from Neu-Beideck
Herder from Neu-Beideck
Jede from Neu-Beideck
Kling from Neu-Beideck
Krämer from Neu-Beideck
Kühn from Neu-Beideck
Markus from Neu-Beideck
Müller from Neu-Beideck
Neuberger from Neu-Beideck
Ostermüller from Neu-Beideck
Rohde from Neu-Beideck
Rusch from Neu-Beideck
Spomer from Neu-Beideck
Wiegel from Neu-Beideck
Windecker from Neu-Beideck

Aschenbrenner from Dyakovka
Elsasser from Dyakovka
Gretz from Dyakovka
Meier from Dyakovka
Michaelis from Dyakovka
Reifschneider from Dyakovka
Rothenberger from Dyakovka
Schranber? (from Baku)  from Dyakovka
Terre from Dyakovka

Boxberger from Ährenfeld
Fabrizius from Ährenfeld
Schneider from Ährenfeld
Schwartzkopf from Gnadenfeld

в колхоз «Север»
Ruppel from Rosenfeld (am Yeruslan)
Eckert from Rosenfeld (am Yeruslan)
Fritz from Rosenfeld (am Yeruslan)
Horst from Rosenfeld (am Yeruslan)
Ott from Rosenfeld (am Yeruslan)
Simon from Rosenfeld (am Yeruslan)
Walter from Rosenfeld (am Yeruslan)
Dauer from Rosenfeld (am Yeruslan)
Forod? from Rosenfeld (am Yeruslan)

в колхоз «Сознание»
Müller from Rosenfeld (am Yeruslan)
Wagner from Rosenfeld (am Yeruslan)
Fritz from Rosenfeld (am Yeruslan)
Kempf from Rosenfeld (am Yeruslan)

в колхоз «Вперед»
Adler from Neu-Babus [Нейбабус]?
Vack from Neu-Babus [Нейбабус]?
Wiegel from Neu-Babus [Нейбабус]?
Beck from Neu-Babus [Нейбабус]?
Kühn from Neu-Babus [Нейбабус]?
Spomer from Neu-Babus [Нейбабус]?
Knen? from Neu-Babus [Нейбабус]?
Dahmer from Neu-Babus [Нейбабус]?
Mai from Ährenfeld
Fabrizius from Ährenfeld
Sinner from Ährenfeld
Widecker from Ährenfeld

в колхоз «Пролетарий»
Bender from Ährenfeld
Fabrizius from Ährenfeld
Rein from Ährenfeld
Boxberger from Ährenfeld
Roth from Ährenfeld
Schwien from Ährenfeld
Linker from Ährenfeld

в колхоз «Красный повстанец»
Gutschmidt from Ährenfeld
Kober from Ährenfeld
Barth from Ährenfeld
Ehrlich from Ährenfeld
Walter from Ährenfeld
Müller from Ährenfeld
Treize? from Ährenfeld
Lehmann from Ährenfeld

в колхоз «Красноармеец»
Schneider from Ährenfeld
Fabrizius from Ährenfeld
Boxberger from Ährenfeld
Laas from Ährenfeld

в колхоз "Луч"
Howeiler from Ährenfeld
Walter from Ährenfeld
Bauer from Gnadentau
Günther from Gnadentau

в колхоз «Боевик»
Gutschmidt from Ährenfeld
Schneider from Ährenfeld
Müller from Ährenfeld
Günther from Ährenfeld
Michel from Ährenfeld
Lefafel? from Ährenfeld
Winter from Ährenfeld
Michaelis from Ährenfeld
 

In the 1950s, many of these deported families relocated back to the city of Kostanai following implementation of Soviet agricultural incentives for development of the region. Following the 1990 collapse of the Soviet Union, most of these families immigrated to Germany. As of 2018, approximately 2.3% of the population of Kostanai was still ethnically German.