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Mapping German settlements in the Imperial Russian Empire.
Following the humans. Recording where they lived.

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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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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/
October 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This past summer I gave the presentation “German 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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September 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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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September 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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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September 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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
August 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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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July 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Have you ever wondered what the exact words were that ended the special privileges of the German colonists in 1871?

I did.

www.germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org/2025/06/4970...
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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June 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“Whereof what’s past is prologue; what to come, in yours and my discharge.”

No tsars, no emperors, #NoKings
June 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“Whereof what’s past is prologue; what to come, in yours and my discharge.”

#NoKings
June 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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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June 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
German, Mennonite, Separatist colonies in the Taurida province (Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine today) in 1829 among the neighboring Nogai Tatars, Doukhobors, and Malokans.

www.germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org/2025/06/1829...
June 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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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May 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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 — 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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May 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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A Ukrainian embroidered shirt isn’t just clothing — it’s an ancient code stitched in sacred symbols.

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May 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Exhibit: The Art of Making Do.
Repurpose. Reuse. Recycle. German Russian immigrants were already applying today's sustainability principles to crafting in the 1800s.

Nov. 12, 2024–Sep. 30, 2025
North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum

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May 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hello weekend! Time to do some Germans from Russia genealogy research.

Have you checked out the growing list of Surnames with Confirmed Pre-Volga Origins on the The Volga Germans website? Find out where your Volga German ancestors came from.

www.volgagermans.org/who-are-volg...
May 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Documentary Premiere | Lawrence Welk: A North Dakota Farm Boy

Saturday, May 31, 2025, 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum, East Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, ND, USA

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May 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe (SGGEE) has a brand new website. If your German ancestors hail from the former Russian provinces of Volhynia, Podolia, or Kyiv, this is a great place to start your research.

sggee.org#/
May 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Many thanks to AHSGR for hosting Treffen Tuesday and making the recordings available for rewatch.
What They Carried: Storytelling Through Objects
YouTube video by AHSGR International
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May 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The southwest krai was a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until Poland was partitioned. Today the former region crosses the Ukrainian oblasts of Cherkasy, Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv, Rivne, Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zhytomyr w/ small number in Odesa and Mykolaiv & Transnistria, Moldova.
Southwest Russia - Google My Maps
The Southwestern Krai was also known as the Kiev General Governorate. Historically, it consisted of the provinces of Kiev, Podolia (Podilia) and Volhynia. After the turn of the 20th century, Kholm Pro...
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April 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The latest map updates have been posted. This focus this time was on the southwest krai and the former provinces of Volhynia, Podolia and Kiev.

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Map Update — Southwest Krai
A few additions to the provinces of the former Southwest Krai.
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April 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM