Ruhl, William
William Ruhl, son of Philip Ruhl & Maria Elisabeth Zierkiebel, was born 25 October 1901 in Colfax, Washington. He died 12 March 1956 in Hollywood, California.
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Gualeguay, Departamento Gualeguay, Entre Ríos Province
Volga German families settled in and around Gualeguay in the Argentine province of Entre Ríos.
Braun, Christian
Christian Nicholas Braun, son of Dr. Donald Braun, Jr. & Lisa Sandbothe, was born 17 April 2001 in Burlington, Kansas.
He played college basketball with the University of Kansas Jay Hawks and was drafted #21 in the 1st Round of the 2022 Draft of the National Basketball Association by the Denver Nuggets.
Christian's Volga German ancestors came from the colony of Herzog.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Tbilisi traces its history back to the 5th Century. From 1801 to 1917, when it was located in the territory of the Russian Empire, it was the capital of the Caucasus Viceroy. Before 1934, Tbilisi was known in English as Tiflis and today is still called Tiflis in some languages.
Volga German families relocated to this part of the Caucasus as early as the mid-1800s.
The Seventh-Day Adventists had a missionary outpost in Tbilisi during the late Tsarist and early Bolshevik periods.
Löbsack, Heinrich
Heinrich Löbsack [also Lebsack / Lebsak], son of Johann Friedrich Löbsack & Anna Margaretha Lesser, was born 1 May 1870 in the Volga German colony of Frank. He married there on 20 November 1888 to Maria Katharina Löbsack, daughter of Konrad Löbsack & Margaretha Hoff. She had been born in Frank on 8 February 1868. They had 5 children; among them Amalia Löbsack Galladazhev [see her individual entry].
Galladzheva, Amalia (Löbsack)
Amalia Löbsack, daughter of Heinrich Löbsack & Maria Katharina Löbsack, was born 21 May 1891 [some sources record this date as 5 May 1891] in the Volga German colony of Frank.
Semey, Abai Oblast, Kazakhstan
The first Russian settlement in this area dates back to 1718 when a Russian fort was constructed on the site of an ancient Buddhist monastery.
Volga German families settled in Semipalatinsk even before the 1941 Deportation. In Semipalatinsk, there was a sustantial community of Volga Germans who followed the Seventh Day Adventist faith practice.
The city was known as Semipalatinsk until 2007 when its name was changed to Semey.
Flagler, Randy
Randal Todd Flagler, son of Norris John Flagler & Brenda Shelley Northdurft, was born 21 August 1968 in Overland Park, Kansas. He is an American TV actor [some sources report that he is an Australian actor].
His first television role was in the horror series "FreakyLinks," after which he broke into the crime show world with an episode of "NYPD Blue" in 2002.
Dushanbe, Dushanbe Region, Tajikistan
Until 1929, Dushanbe was known in Russian as Dyushambe and from 1929 to 1961 as Stalinabad.
Volga German families settled in and around Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, following the 1941 Deportation.
Hügelsheim, Kr. Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg (Post-1941)
Halifax Airbase, a NATO airforce installation managed by the Canadians, was a major economic contributor to the community of Hügelsheim during the Cold War. The residential area near Halifax Airbase was known as Kleinkanada. The Canadians withdrew from Halifax in 1993, and the Airbase became the airport for the city of Baden-Baden.