The above sketch was featured in an article about Kamenka by Viktor Schnittke written in October 1981 and appearing in the Neues Leben, Nr. 21/1982 page 8.

• About the Village:
  The KAMENKA colony was founded on September 16, 1764 by an innkeeper, Wilhelm Augustus, from Brandenburg and Josef Ese from Bohemia. They had the task of preparing conditions for the colonists who arrived later, along with representatives of the Russian Administration. They were counted in this colony but did not remain because they were in service for the State.

• Points of Interest:
  St. Mary's Catholic Church, built by the villagers of KAMENKA in 1907, was the pride of the community.  Reflecting the influence of neogothic architecture, the red brick house of worship included a choir loft and an organ.  The church was gutted during the Stalinist era.  The carved oak door and ornate railings were removed and it was converted into a warehouse and tractor garage.

• Peter Simon Pallas
  in his travels through the Volga region in 1793 and 1794 for Catherine the Great writes,

"KAMENKA is one of the most flourishing and opulent among the Catholic colonies; it possesses upwards of sixty fire-places; and has, besides the brook, excellent water in wells, sunk through loam and other strata, about nine feet deep. We reposed here during the night, having suffered much inconvenience the preceding day, from the intensity of the heat, occasioned by the reflection of the sun-beams from the snow, accompanied with a keen north-west, wind, which continued during the whole of our journey from Saratof. The Volga is no more than fifteen versts distant, in a straight line from this place."