Friedenfeld

Alternate Names
Beruchik,
Biryuchye,
Friedenfeld,
Komsomolskoye,
Zhirnoye,
Alt-Friedenfeld
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Type of Settlement
History

Friedenfeld was founded in 1855 by colonists relocating from Merkel, Dietel, Grimm, and Bauer.
After 1915, the colony was known as Biryuchye.

Population
Population Table
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1857
 
 
 
 
1859
 
253
 
 
1889
 
1,217
 
 
1897
 
1,591*
804
787
1905
 
2,568
 
 
1910
236
2,891
1,477
1,414
1920
333
2,524
 
 
1922
 
1,517
 
 
1926**
348
1,849
872
977
1931
 
2,200***
 
 
1939
 
2,614
 
 

*Of whom 1,571 were German.
**Of whom 1,829 (863 male & 966 female) were German living in 337 households.
***Of whom 2,191 were German.

Sources

Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon . Moscow, 2006.
Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005): 218.
Klaus, A. Our Colony [in Russian] (St. Petersburg, 1869): II:16.
List of Populated Areas of the Samara Province [in Russian] (Samara, 1910): 350.
Preliminary Results of the All-Union Census of 1926 and ASSR Volga Germans (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.