Verkhnyaya Kulaninka

Federal district	Southern Russia
Oblast	Volgograd
Rajon	Kamyshin
Founded	1765
Time zone	UTC + 4
Telephone code	(+7) 84457
Post Code	403866
License Plate	34, 134
OKATO	18 218 812 003
Geographical location
Coordinates	50 ° 25 ' N , 45 ° 42' E Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '55 " N , 45 ° 41' 45" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Volgograd Oblast

Verkhnyaya Kulaninka ( Russian Верхняя Куланинка ) is a village in the Russian Oblast of Volgograd . Until 1941 the place was called Holstein and was mostly inhabited by the Volga Germans .

Geographical location

The place is located west of the Volga on the Volga plate in the Volgograd Oblast about 160 kilometers south of Saratov . The closest major city is Kamyshin , about 40 kilometers southwest of the village. The closest villages are Shcherbatovka (8 km), Galka (10 km) and Verkhnyaya Dobrinka (formerly Dreispitz, 6 km).

history

The settlement was founded on May 26, 1765 as a German-Protestant colony. The place was administered, like all Volga colonies, from the city of Saratov, about 160 kilometers to the north . Holstein was part of the community of Galka , but had its own school and church. The wooden church was built in 1830, making it the first church in the parish.

Until the February Revolution of 1917 , life in the village was largely uneventful. However, several Volga-German families had already emigrated, mainly to the USA and Canada . Holstein was also affected by the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. One after the other, the White Army and the Red Army captured the place. Many residents were killed and many of the houses were badly damaged during the fighting. After the consolidation of Soviet power, the forced collectivization of farms began in Holstein in the 1930s . Production was nationalized and the food had to be given away.

In the course of the dissolution of the Volga German Republic , the forced resettlement of the residents of Holstein began in September 1941. The place was renamed Verkhnyaya Kulaninka in this context. In 1956 some of the former Volga German residents came back and settled again.

literature

Frieda Eichler Brulotte and Louise Elton Potter: Germans From Russia in the Yakima Valley, Prior to 1940 , Yakima (Washington) 1990

Web links

Village of Holstein