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Mayak was founded in 1890 in the Altai Krai region of Siberia. Volga German families were deported to Mayak in 1941.

Krasny Kut was founded in 1908 in Kazakhstan by Volga German colonists relocating from the Volga Region. It was named after the village of Krasny Kut in the Volga Region.

In 2002, the name of the village was changed to Oshagandy.

Volga German families were sent to Redkaya Dubrava during the 1941 Deportation.

Today, Redkaya Dubrava is located in the German National [Cultural] District of Altai Krai in Siberia.

Volga German families moved into the Russian town of Krasny Kut on the Wiesenseite over the years.

Krasny Kut had been founded by Ukranian migrants who came to the area in 1837.

Volga German families moved to the city of Stavropol in the North Caucasus as early as 1897.

Rozhdestvenskaya, known in German as Fürstendorf, was founded in the North Caucasus on the banks of the Kuban River in 1864 by Volga German colonists from Semenovka. However, colonists from Köhler may have been living there already as early as 1858.

Today, Rozhdestvenskaya is part of the metropolitan area of Nevinnomyssk.

Volga German families settled in the village of Pokornoye following the 1941 deportation.

Today, Pokornoye is known as Baymyrza.

Volga German families from Neu-Bauer were deported to Yelovoye in the Krasnoyarsk Krai of Siberia in 1941.

The rural village of Volchy Rakit was founded in 1939. Volga German families from Neu-Bauer were deported there in 1941.