Gordon, Sheridan Co., Nebraska
Volga German families settled in and around Gordon, Nebraska.
Volga German families settled in and around Gordon, Nebraska.
Volga German families settled in and around Big River, Saskatchewan.
Volga German families settled in and around Nokomis, Saskatchewan.
Volga German families settled in and around Brandon, Manitoba.
Volga German families settled in and around Quemú Quemú, in La Pampa Province.
Philipp Gotthard Nix and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. Yp06.
The agricultural census of 1798 records his name as Gotthard Kniss, but he doesn't appear elsewhere with the other Kniss families.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Nix family among the Volga German families.
Schafsdorf was founded in about 1895 by Volga German colonists most of whom were resettling from the colonies of Jost and Moor. It was named after one of the first settlers named Schaaf from Huck.
In 1912, it was given the Russian name of Gribanovka after the Cossack officer Gribanov who had leased the land to the original settlers.
Krasnoyarka was founded by Volga Germans in 1894 on a site near the Kudai-Kuduk swamp. The first colonists arrived from the Krasnoyarsk volost of the Kamyshinsky district of the Saratov Province [Wiesenseite].
Yablonovka was founded by Volga Germans in 1911.
Yekaterinoslavka was founded in 1907 by Ukrainians.
On 18 September 1941, 14 Volga German families arrived in Yekaterinoslavka. They came from the colony of Erlenbach from which they had been deported on 5 September 1941.