Kazachinskoye was founded in 1650 by Cossacks as a fort called Kazachiy Lug. In the early 1920s, it was renamed to Kazachinskoye.
Volga German families settled there following the 1941 Deportation.
Volga German families settled in Wössingen following the 1990 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Today, Wössingen is administratively part of the municipality of Walzbachtal.
Volga German families settled in Belecke following the 1990 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Volga German families were settled in the village of Novosyolovka, Kazakhstan, following the 1941 Deportation.
Descendants of Volga German families have moved to London through the years.
Volga German families settled in Kankakee County, Illinois.
Elisabeth Vogel and Andreas Müller were married on 10 October 1765 in St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Andreas Müller, a weaver (Weber), his wife Elisabeth [née Vogel], and son Johannes Mattias (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 34. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.
Today, Streetz is administratively part of the combined German city of Dessau-Roßlau. Historically, it was a village in Sachsen-Anhalt.
Aschersleben is a rural community in Kreis Vorpommern-Greifswald. It was historically located in the region of Brandenburg.
Elisabeth Kraft née Otto (age 27) and here sister Rosina Otto (age 19) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 115. [See Kraft Family.]
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Elisabeth Kraft née Otto came from the German village of Thelbey, Nördlingen and that Rosina Otto had come from the German village of Mitgenborn in the Isenburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Otto family among the Volga German colonies.