Novoskatovka was founded in 1906 by Volga German colonists resettling from Yagodnaya Polyana and Neu-Straub. The Russian name of Neu-Straub was Novoskatovka, so that is what the new settlement was called. The early settlers also used the names of Schöntal and Neu-Straub.
On 18 September 1941, 53 families (265 people) arrived from the Volga German colony of Erlenbach from which they had been deported on 5 September 1941.
On 25 August 1894, a tiny railway station on the Trans-Siberian Railway was located in this place and was called Marianovka.
A town developed near the station. It was called Novo-Timofeyevka, but today is known by the name of the railway station Marianovka.
Volga Germans being deported from the colony of Erlenbach arrived at the railway station aboard Train Number 702 in Marianovka on 15 September 1941. Some families remained in Marianovka while others were distributed to neighboring villages.
Volga German families settled in and around Wooster, Ohio.
Volga German families settled in and around the community of Meeme, Wisconsin.
Johannes Geiger (born about 1804) is recorded on the 1834 census of Boisroux in Household No. 114. The surname is recorded there as Geier, but subsequent censuses record that it should be Geiger.
Further research is needed to determine his relationship, if any, to other Geiger families that settled among the Volga German colonies.
The railway station in Tikhoretsk was established on 17 May 1874.
Volga German families settled in Tikhoretsk.
Blumental was founded in 1907 by Volga German colonists relocating from the Volga region. Other sources record that it was founded in 1903 by Russian peasants, which may account for its original Russian name of Romanovka.
Saratovka [Saratowka in German] was founded in 1906 by Lutheran colonists from the Volga Region.
Vladimirovka [Wladimirowka in German] was founded in 1909 by Russians. Volga German families also settled in Vladimirovka.
Even though it is located among the Volga German colonies, Voznesenka [Wosnesenka in German] was apparently not a Volga German colony. But over the years Volga German families settled there.