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VOLGA
About 300 Volga villages are listed along with their alternate names,
map coordinates, village coordinators, religion, year established and
population in 1912.
The Volga Valley lies about 450 miles southeast of Moscow, on either
side of the Volga River. Saratov was the major Russian city in the area.
The landscape on either side of the Volga River was vastly different.
The villages on the north and west side of the river were in the hilly
area or Bergseite, and the villages on the south and east side of the river
were on the meadowside or Wiesenseite.
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The Volga region is served primarily by two archives, Saratov and Engels.
Some Volga German records are also known to be housed in the Volgograd
archives.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, more records
about the Volga Germans have available in the archives. Members of
the German Volga mail list have donated funds for the restoration of
fragile genealogical records.
Upon the invitation of Catherine the Great, 25,000 Germans immigrated
to the Volga valley of Russia to establish 104 German Villages from
1764-1767.
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