Orlof was founded by Mennonite colonists from West Prussia in 1871. Orlof was one of a group of Mennonite Colonies known as the Am Trakt Settlement.
Following the deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941, Orlof was made part of the neighboring settlement of Kalinin.
There were two churches that served the Am Trakt Settlement Mennonites. One of them was located in Orlof.
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Year
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Households
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Population
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
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Male
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Female
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| 1886 |
|
|
|
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| 1891 |
|
|
|
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| 1894 |
|
|
|
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| 1897 |
17
|
80
|
44
|
36
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
18
|
170
|
98
|
72
|
| 1920 |
22*
|
232
|
|
|
| 1926 |
33
|
208
|
98
|
110
|
*Of which 21 households were German.
- Orlov (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005): 402.
- Dyck, Johannes J. Am Trakt: A Mennonite Settlement in the Central Volga Region. Winnipeg, MB: CMBC Publications, 1995.
- List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 334.
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): pp.28-83.
- Schroeder, William and Helmut Huebert. Mennonite Historical Atlas (Winnipeg, MB: Springfield Publishers, 1996): 133.
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Map showing Orlof (1935).
Mennonite Church in Orlof.
Source: wolgadeutsche.net via Jorge Bohn.
Interior of the Mennonite Church in Orlof, decorated for Pentecost.
Source: wolgadeutsche.net via Jorge Bohn.