Hummel was founded on 14 July 1767 by colonists who had been recruited by Baron Caneau de Beauregard.
The 1767 census does not include a list of the original colonists in Hummel as they were residing in other colonies at that time.
Johannes Hummel (age 70) is recorded on the 1798 census of Hummel in Household No. Hm08. It appears that the colony got its German name from him.
Today, what remains of the colony of Hummel is known as Buyerak.
Hummel was originally part of the Lutheran parish headquartered in Bettinger. In 1820, it became part of the Näb parish.
In 1857, a wooden church was constructed in Hummel. It could seat 400 worshipers.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
|
|
|
|
| 1769 |
16
|
109
|
52
|
57
|
| 1773 |
22
|
86
|
35
|
51
|
| 1788 |
23
|
107
|
56
|
51
|
| 1798 |
35
|
142
|
78
|
64
|
| 1816 |
34
|
243
|
121
|
122
|
| 1834 |
47
|
431
|
216
|
215
|
| 1850 |
64
|
567
|
289
|
278
|
| 1857 |
69
|
645
|
334
|
311
|
| 1859 |
|
666
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
757
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
999
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,044
|
501
|
543
|
| 1905 |
|
1,438
|
|
|
| 1910 |
250
|
1,572
|
780
|
792
|
| 1912 |
|
1,650
|
|
|
| 1920 |
215
|
1,396
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
780
|
|
|
| 1926 |
148
|
771
|
385
|
386
|
| 1931 |
|
990*
|
|
|
*Of whom 988 were German.
Brockhausen (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764. Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 350.
- 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.Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869): 2:13; 4:52-53.
- List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 292.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Hm08.
- Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 613.
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
- 1798 Hummel Census
- 1834 Hummel Census
- 1857 Hummel Census
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Map showing Hummel in the middle (1935).