Romanovka was founded in 1895 by five ethnic German families from the Stavropol Region. Three had originally come from the Volga German colonies near Saratov. They were joined by 17 families from Bessarabia. In 1896, additional families arrived from the Caucasus and the Volga German colonies of the Wiesenseite.
In 2006, the name of the village was changed to Rachymzhana Koshkarbayeva.
From the 1917 Agricultural Census of Romanovka, Dr. Viktor Krieger reports that the following Volga German families were living in the village:
Baumann
Bauer
Becker
Bicholz
Bitter
Blum
Bock
Burbach
Buxmann
Dittenber
Döring
Dortmann
Ebert
Eckerdt
Fink
Franz
Freund
Friebus
Funk
Gebhardt
Göhringer
Grasmück
Hahn
Hein
Herdt
Herzog
Holzhausen
Joos
Keiner
Kiehl
Knaus
Kober
Krell
Kromm
Krummet
Kühlthau
Kunz
Kutscher
Leber
Lehmann
Leimann
Liebrecht
Liehr
Lindt
Lofink
Lotz
Meier
Meinhard
Merkel
Metzger
Müller
Nau
Naumann
Nickel
Preuss
Printz
Rau
Reckling
Riemer
Schäfer
Schmidt
Schneider
Spädt
Spinker
Stahlbaum
Stahlmann
Stecker
Stehm
Strecker
Stumpf
Ungefugt
Vogel
Vorath
Walger
Weber
Wehrwein
Weiland
Wuckert
Zeller
Zimmermann
Population
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
|
1895 |
|
397
|
|
|
|
1897 |
|
698*
|
|
|
|
1909 |
|
769
|
|
|
|
1915 |
|
1,238
|
|
|
|
1917 |
|
1,917
|
|
|
|
1925 |
|
1,045
|
|
|
|
1989 |
|
1,917**
|
|
|
*Of whom 698 were German.
**Of whom 78% were German.
The original colonists who settled in Romanovka were Lutheran.
- Wanner, Michael. Memorial Book Kazakhstan (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2023): 158-163.
- Wolgadeutsche.net
- Село Рахымжана Кошкарбаева (Russian Wikipedia)