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Mapping German settlements in the Imperial Russian Empire. Following the humans. Recording where they lived. #GermansFromRussia #Russlanddeutsche #Genealogy #StandWithUkraine https://www.germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org/
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Feb 24
Between 1766-1944, Germans lived in over 3,000 places within the borders of Ukraine, in the former imperial empires of Austria, Hungary & Russia. These places, whether or not they still exist, remain in the hearts of the descendants as one our ancestral homelands.

Slava Ukraini!
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A map of Ukraine with blue and yellow pins marking all of the known ancestral German settlements within the border of Ukraine.
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· 19d
#NoKings
No Kings
What question would you ask your ancestors if you could?
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Weird Relative At Family Reunion Knows How Everyone Related To Each Other https://theonion.com/weird-relative-at-family-reunion-knows-how-everyone-rel-1819579336/
Weird Relative At Family Reunion Knows How Everyone Related To Each Other
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Sep 28
German Geography of the Russian Empire: Summary
Summary: Geography of German Settlement in the Russian Empire
Summary: Geography of German Settlement in the Russian Empire
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Sep 28
German Geography of the Russian Empire: Russian Far East
German Geography in Russia: Russian Far East
German settlement on the edges of the Russian Empire: Russian Far East, Eastern Siberia
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Sep 28
German Geography of the Russian Empire: Central Asia & Western Siberia
German Geography in Russia: Central Asia & Western Siberia
German settlement on the edges of the Russian Empire: Russian Turkestan, Western Siberia
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Sep 28
German Geography of the Russian Empire: Caucasus Region
German Geography in Russia: Caucasus Region
German settlement on the edges of the Russian Empire: North Caucasus, South Caucasus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, TΓΌrkiye
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Sep 28
German Geography of the Russian Empire: Black Sea Region
German Geography in Russia: Black Sea Region
German settlement on the edges of the Russian Empire: Black Sea region, South Russia
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Sep 28
German Geography of the Russian Empire: Eastern Europe
German Geography in Russia: Eastern Europe
German settlement on the edges of the Russian Empire: Partitions of Poland, Grand Duchy of Warsaw
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Sep 28
German Geography of the Russian Empire: Baltics & Finland
German Geography in Russia: Baltics & Finland
German settlement on the edges of the Russian Empire: Baltics, Finland, St. Petersburg
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Sep 20
This past summer I gave the presentation β€œGerman Geography of the Russian Empire.” It explored the territorial growth of Imperial Russia & showed its significance to German settlement/migration across the empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. Here is the first in a series of posts from it.
Geography of German Settlement in the Russian Empire
German settlement on the edges of the Russian Empire; Russian territorial gains and German colonization, settlement, migration
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Sep 20
Russian German history doesn’t often cover the history of Jewish agricultural colonies except in relation to Mennonites being model farmers in some of Jewish colonies. It was more complex than that.
Jewish Agricultural Colonies
Jewish agricultural colonies among the German colonies in the Russian Empire
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Sep 20
More toponym changes in Ukraine were released in June 2025. This is a part of Ukraine’s ongoing de-communization, de-russification & standardization of state language of place names in the country. Because this project is a living document, changes are made to match name changes made by Ukraine.
More Toponym Changes in Ukraine
Google maps with the locations of ethnic German villages in Imperial Russian and Austrian empires settled during years 1763-1940.
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Aug 7
Free SGGEE (Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe) convention coming up August 16-17. Virtual convention.

Presentation details here: 2025sggee.blogspot.com
Registration here: formsmarts.com/form/2f0j
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Jul 4
Found a group of Volga Germans in EWZ files yesterday. I've not gone through them in any detaill, but I thought I'd share.

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Volga Germans in EWZ Records
Google maps with the locations of ethnic German villages in Imperial Russian and Austrian empires settled during years 1763-1940.
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Jun 17
Have you ever wondered what the exact words were that ended the special privileges of the German colonists in 1871?

I did.

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49705 When Our Ancestors Became "settlers (former colonists)"
Google maps with the locations of ethnic German villages in Imperial Russian and Austrian empires settled during years 1763-1940.
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Jun 13
β€œWhereof what’s past is prologue; what to come, in yours and my discharge.”

No tsars, no emperors, #NoKings
No thrones. No crowns. No kings. A crown with a red X through it.
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Jun 13
β€œWhereof what’s past is prologue; what to come, in yours and my discharge.”

#NoKings
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Jun 10
Postolat (also Postolary & Postolater) is here 47.0472, 31.6061. It appears by name on a WWII German military map (below right). No name but exact same location on an Austrian military map (below left). Seems it continued to be a state farm after the war.
1914 Austrian military map of some of the German colonies in the Beresan enclave in South Russia (Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine today). Added is the name by an unnamed chutor or farmstead: Khutor Postolat(ary)(er). 1941 German military map of some of the German colonies in the Beresan enclave in Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukrainian S.S.R. (Ukraine today). Noted with a blue pin is the location of Khutor Postolat(ary)(er). Satellite image of the former village taken in 2022. The outline matches the 1941 map with the upper and lower parts, possibly indicating that at one time it was an estate. The lower part might have been where the estate owners lived and the upper where the workers lived in farmsteads. Unfortunately, there is next to nothing known about this village, but at least we know where it is now.
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Jun 10
On 10 June 1808, German colonists arrived in the Kutschurgan valley. On their 100th anniversary of the colonies, a Russian newspaper in Odessa, the Odessaer Zeitung, published a series of articles about each of 6 Catholic Mother colonies: Baden, Elsass, Kandel, Mannheim, Selz and Strassburg.
The Founding of the Kutschurgan Colonies
On 10 June 1808, German colonists began settling colonies in the Kutschurgan valley.
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Jun 10
These must be yours: www.blackseagr.org/blksea-db/pl... Their birth years give me an idea of how far back I can look to try to find it. I also found a reference to a village called "Postolater" that is probably the same place with the person living there in 1937, so that also helps timewise.
Postolat, Russia: Black Sea German ResearchUntitled 3
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Jun 10
All of those surnames appear mostly in the Beresan enclave, connected to Landau. It might have been a khutor near there. I'll look at some old maps tomorrow and see if the name shows up.
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Jun 9
Not seeing anything come very close. Any idea what region, what year your ancestors were there, and a surname? Where did the place name come from?
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· Jun 5
German, Mennonite, Separatist colonies in the Taurida province (Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine today) in 1829 among the neighboring Nogai Tatars, Doukhobors, and Malokans.

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Map of the mainland part of the former Russian province of Taurida in 1829. Today this is the Zaporizhia Oblast in Ukraine. Same map translated and annotated noting where the German and Mennonite colonies were located.
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· May 27
A nice map and a few images of a handful of Volga colonies from a 1911 "Volksfreund Kalender."

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1911 Volksfreund Kalender
Images of buildings in the Volga German colonies.
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸŒ» @germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org Β· May 23
The maps for South Russia and the Black Sea Region have been updated, including noting the former German colonies that are in Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine.

Bonus ethnographic map of Bessarabian, too.
Map Update β€” South Russia
Google maps with the locations of ethnic German villages in Imperial Russian and Austrian empires settled during years 1763-1940.
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