Johannes Geiger (born about 1804) is recorded on the 1834 census of Boisroux in Household No. 114. The surname is recorded there as Geier, but subsequent censuses record that it should be Geiger.
Further research is needed to determine his relationship, if any, to other Geiger families that settled among the Volga German colonies.
The railway station in Tikhoretsk was established on 17 May 1874.
Volga German families settled in Tikhoretsk.
Blumental was founded in 1907 by Volga German colonists relocating from the Volga region. Other sources record that it was founded in 1903 by Russian peasants, which may account for its original Russian name of Romanovka.
Saratovka [Saratowka in German] was founded in 1906 by Lutheran colonists from the Volga Region.
Vladimirovka [Wladimirowka in German] was founded in 1909 by Russians. Volga German families also settled in Vladimirovka.
Even though it is located among the Volga German colonies, Voznesenka [Wosnesenka in German] was apparently not a Volga German colony. But over the years Volga German families settled there.
Nikolaevka was founded in 1907 (other sources record 1906) by first the Kaznacheyev brothers who were followed by the Nikolaev brothers after whom the village was named. Germans from both Ukraine and the Volga Region also settled in the village.
Volga Germans from the Samara Province who had founded the neighboring village of Maryanovka in 1907 later relocated to Nikolaevka.
Today, Nikolayevka is located in the German National [Cultural] District with its administrative center in the nearby village of Halbstadt.
Volga German families settled in and around Samarka in Kazakhstan.
Volga German families settled in and around Washburn, North Dakota.
From 1889-1891, a number families from Balzer, Dönhof, and Kutter resettled to the village of Podsosnovo. It is considered to be the oldest German village in the Altai Region.
Today, Podsosnovo is located in the German National [Cultural] District in Altai Krai.