The river terminal of Marx and the monument to ... Anna Sorokina Thanks to these efforts, locals began to realize that the Volga Germans are practically an indigenous ethnic group in Russia ...

Germans troops entered the city. The outnumbered Soviet forces were only able to hold a tiny sliver along the Volga River. Stalin issued an order that anyone thought to be retreating or deserting ...

The Bolshevik revolution broke out a year later, and the new communist authorities quickly realized the potential of the young German for dealing with his fellow countrymen in the Volga River region.

Among them are at least 1,017 ethnic Germans. German colonists first settled along the shores of the Volga River in the late 18th century at the invitation of Catherine the Great, who hoped the ...

From 1764 to 1767, 23,000 Germans emigrated to a small area of Russia along the Volga River at the behest of Russia’s German-born princess, Catherine the Great. A total of 104 colonies were ...

The birthplace of the Volga River was first discovered in the 17th ... They had received a most-generous invitation from German-born Catherine the Great, who as czarina was looking to populate ...

An exhibit called “The Art of Making Do” is now open at the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum. The display highlights the everyday folk art of German-Russian immigrants who came to North ...

Leona A. Asper, 85, died in her sleep of natural causes today at Kenton Manor in Greeley. Born near Hays, Kan., in Emmerman, a community that no longer exists, she was the daughter of Volga River ...

Throw in long pedestrian avenues, the legacy of the Volga Germans and the mighty Volga River and you start to see the fuller picture of this city that was literally built over night. Saratov is a ...