Includes the following communities
Beketai, Proletarsky District, Rostovskaya Oblast
Beketny, Proletarsky District, Rostovskaya Oblast
Chutor Beketai, Proletarsky District, Rostovskaya Oblast
Khutor Beketai, Proletarsky District, Rostovskaya Oblast
Бекетный, Пролетарский район, Ростовская область
Пикетна, Пролетарский район, Ростовская область
Хутор Бекетный, Пролетарский район, Ростовская область
History
Volga German families moved from the Volga River Valley to the Don River Valley in search of additional farm land.
Beketny was a farmstead (Khutor) that was founded by colonists relocating from the village of Salfeld.
Today, only the remants of a collective from the Soviet era remain where Beketny was located.
Population:
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1915 | 694 |
|
|
|
| 1920 |
|
931 |
|
|
| 1926 |
|
1,212* |
|
|
*Of whom 1,200 were German.
The following Volga German families settled in Beketny:
Bäcker
Bauer
Bell
Brickmann
Brott
Dewald
Ebel
Eckel
Gerberhawer
Gerwitsch
Giess
Gross
Hartmann
Heyer
Hinsch
Hirsch
Jäkel
Kanel
Keil
Kimmel
Kleister
Koch
Koffler
Kurz
Leer
Liewer
Luft
Mehder
Metzger
Mihl
Miller
Reichert
Schlotthauer
Schmidt
Schneider
Schnorr
Schötz
Seib
Taud
Vogel
Wacker
Wagner
Weimer
Wiederhold
Will
Wolf
Worm
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