Volga Germans facts for kids
Volga Germans (German: Wolgadeutsche or Russlanddeutsche, Russian: поволжские немцы, povolzhskie nemtsy) were ethnic Germans living along the Volga River. They kept the culture, language, traditions and religions of Germans, including Lutheranism and Roman Catholicism.
Catherine the Great invited Germans to immigrate. She gave them Russian lands, and allowed them to keep their language and culture.
The Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic of the Volga Germans (German: Autonome Sozialistische Sowjet-Republik der Wolga-Deutschen; Russian: Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика Немцёв Поволжья) existed from 1924 to 1942 with the capital in Engels.
South America
Germans from Russia also settled in Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. Most Volga Germans who settled in Latin America were Catholic. Many Catholic Volga Germans chose South America as their new homeland because the nations in South America shared their religion.
Images for kids
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Volga German cities and settlements
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Temporary quarters for Volga Germans in central Kansas, 1875
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Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church in Kansas
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Ethnic Germans from the Volga region at a refugee camp in Schneidemühl, Germany, early 1920's
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Streckerau, 1920, nowadays Novokamenka, Rovnoye (Rovensky) district, Saratov Oblast
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Flags of Argentina, Buenos Aires Province and Germany in front of St. Joseph Catholic Church in San José, Coronel Suárez Partido, Argentina (Volga German colony)
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Eduard Rossel was the governor (1995 - 2009) of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
See also
In Spanish: Alemanes del Volga para niños
