VGI Updates

Volga German families from Kazakhstan settled in the village of Spelle following the 1990 collapse of the Soviet Union.

Many of them came originally from the daughter colony of Emilianovka.

Volga German families settled in the village of Pamyaty Gorky following the 1941 Deportation.

Pamyaty Gorky had been located in the Urlyutub District before the creation in 1963 of the Zhelezinsky District.

Volga German families settled in Bezvodnoye following the 1941 Deportation.

It was originally in the Urlyutyubsky District, but was placed in the Zhelezinsky District when it was created in 1963.

Today, very little remains of Bezvodnoye other than a few building from the Collective era.

[The village of Bezvodnoye was known as Bolshevik?]

Volga German families were settled in Priirtyshskoye following the 1941 Deportation.

Volga German families settled in Telmann, Kazakhstan.

All of the ethnic Germans living in Telmann immigrated to Germany following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Today, nothing remains of the former village of Telmann except for building of the collective farm era.

Volga German families settled in Moiseyevka, Kazakhstan.

Volga German families settled in Zhelezinka, Kazakhstan.