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Neu-Boisroux

Names
Neu-Boaro
Neu-Boisroux
Novoborodovka
Ней-Боаро
Новое Боаро
Новое Бордовое
History

In 1848, Neu-Boisroux was founded by colonists resettling from Orlovskaya, Boisroux, Philippsfeld, and Paulskaya.

In 1954, the collective farm "Culture" was established in Neu-Boisroux.

Today, nothing remains of the former Volga German settlement of Neu-Boisroux.

Church

The Lutheran congregation in Neu-Boisroux belonged to the parish headquartered in Fresental.

Population
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1850
40
283
140
143
1857
39
308
161
147
1859
 
 
 
 
1886
 
 
 
 
1891
 
 
 
 
1894
 
 
 
 
1897
 
596*
301
295
1904
 
 
 
 
1910
120
1,109
538
571
1912
 
1,000
 
 
1920
148
973
 
 
1926**
133
633
310
323

*Of whom 593 were German.
**Of whom 630 (309 male & 321 female) were German living in 132 households.

Sources

- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 312.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.

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Immigration Locations

Images

Map showing Neu-Boisroux (1935).

Architectural rendering of the Lutheran Church in Neu-Boisroux.
Source: Wolgadeutsche.net via Jorge Bohn.