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Volga Germans
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Ethnic German inhabitants of the Volga region
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It is catalogued under topics including Ethnic cleansing of Germans, Ethnic groups in Kazakhstan and Ethnic groups in Russia.
Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Russia altai krai 79 502 omsk oblast 76
- 394,138
- Kazakhstan
- 226,092
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- Part of
- German-Russians
- Native language
- Swabian
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Country
- United States
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- Category:Volga German people
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Encyclopedic overview
The Volga Germans (German: Wolgadeutsche, pronounced [ˈvɔlɡaˌdɔʏtʃə] ; Russian: поволжские немцы, romanized: povolzhskiye nemtsy) are ethnic Germans who settled and historically lived along the Volga River in the region of southeastern European Russia around Saratov and close to Ukraine nearer to the south.
Recruited as immigrants to Russia in the 18th century, they were allowed to maintain their German culture, language, traditions and churches (Lutheran, Reformed, Catholics, Moravians and Mennonites). In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many Volga Germans emigrated to the United States, Canada, Brazil and Argentina.
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