The Volga Germans (German: Wolgadeutsche, pronounced [ˈvɔlɡaˌdɔɪ̯t͡ʃə] ; Russian: поволжские немцы, romanized: povolzhskiye nemtsy) are ethnic Germans who...
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Soviet government, establishing the Labour Commune of Volga Germans. This gave Soviet Germans a special status among the non-Russians in the USSR. It...
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30,000 Germans immigrated to the Volga valley of Russia to establish 104 German villages from 1764 to 1767. A century after the first Germans had settled...
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to Germany) and the population fell by half to roughly 1 million. 597,212 Germans self-identified as such in the 2002 Russian census, making Germans the...
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Due to the German right of return law that enables ethnic Germans abroad who had been forcibly deported to return to Germany, Volga Germans could immigrate...
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The Volga (Russian: Волга, pronounced [ˈvoɫɡə] ) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia...
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Sea Germans are distinct from similar groups of settlers (the Bessarabia Germans, Crimea Germans, Dobrujan Germans, Russian Mennonites, Volga Germans, and...
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Volga Germans. Russian Mennonites. Germans of Kazakhstan. Bosporus Germans, originally craftsmen in and around Istanbul, Turkey. Cyprus has a German expatriate...
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Russian Germans frequently lived in distinct communities and maintained German-language schools and German churches. They were primarily Volga Germans from...
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The Volga region (Russian: Поволжье, Povolzhye, literally: "along the Volga") is a historical region in Russia that encompasses the drainage basin of...
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