VGI Updates

Volga German families settled in Custer, South Dakota.

Volga German families were settled in Ivanovo-Sergiyevka following the 1941 Deportation.

Volga German families settled in Plumas County, California.

Volga German families settled in Iron County, Michigan.

Volga German families settled in and around Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Volga German families settled in Lake County, Colorado.

Luxemburg was founded in 1925 by German Mennonites in what today is Kyrgyzstan. It is located east of the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkeck.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, about 30 families from Romanovka and Rozhdenstvenka in Kazakhstan moved to Luxemburg. They were joined by Volga German Kulak families who had been sent there in 1939.

Volga German families were settled directly in Luxemburg following the 1941 Deportation.

In 2024, Luxemburg was annexed to the city of Kant.

Today, very few ethnic German families remain in Luxemburg.

Romanovka was founded in 1895 by five ethnic German families from the Stavropol Region. Three had originally come from the Volga German colonies near Saratov. They were joined by 17 families from Bessarabia. In 1896, additional families arrived from the Caucasus and the Volga German colonies of the Wiesenseite.

In 2006, the name of the village was changed to Rachymzhana Koshkarbayeva.

From the 1917 Agricultural Census of Romanovka, Dr. Viktor Krieger reports that the following Volga German families were living in the village:

Volga German families resettled to the Russian village of Polnoye Lapino, northwest of Saratov.

Volga German families settled in the village of Markatai [Markataij in German] following the 1941 Deportation.

Not much remains of the former village of Markatai.