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Blumental, Rostov Oblast

This Blumental was located in the Don Region. Its coordinates are estimated and based on where Karl Stumpp placed the colony along the Sukhaya Chuburka River.

Volga German colonists were living there in the mid-1800s.

Today, nothing remains of this village.

Fischer, Jacob

Jakob Fischer was born 14 August 1955 in Konstantinovka (today, Tobolino) in Kazakhstan. Today he lives in Nördlingen, Germany.

Fischer is an expert on the culture and folk songs of Germans in the former Soviet Union. He is the editor of a songbook of German folk songs from Russia. Together with musicians Vladimir Dederer and Eduard Frikel and singers Katarina Riessling, Maria Penner-Weimer, Lina Neuwirth, and Ida Haag-Depperschmidt, he released three music albums with Russian-German folk songs.