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Müller (Kutter-2)*

Philipp Müller (born about 1754) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kutter in Household No. Kt39.

The death of Philipp Müller in 1834 is recorded on the 1834 census of Kutter in Household No. 86.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Müller family among the Volga German colonies.

Vannovskoe, Tbilisi District, Krasnodar Krai

The village of Eigenfeld was founded in 1868 two kilometers from the left bank of the Kuban River by a small group of Bessarabian Germans. The number grew quickly to 40 families.

Eventually, Volga German families also settled there.

In the early 1890s, the name of the village was changed to Vannovskoye in honor of P. S. Vannovsky, the Minister of War. Originally, Eigenfeld was located in the Kuban Oblast. Today, it is located in Krasnodar Krai.

Hening, Vladimir

Professor Vladimir Hening, son of Friedrich (Fyodor) Hening, was born 10 May 1924 in Podsosnovo (Siberia) and died in Kiev, Ukraine, on 30 October 1993.

He was educated at the University of Perm. His doctoral dissertation was on the "Ethnic History of the Southern Kama Region in the 1st Millennium AD." He taught in the archeology departments of Ural State University in Sverdlovsk and the Institute of Archeology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev. He is considered the founder of the Sverdlovsk School of Archeology.