Schönfeld was a Lutheran colony.
Schönfeld was founded in along the Jeruslan River in 1858 as a Lutheran colony by 521 resettlers from the colony of Pobochnaya .
After the 1941 deportation, the village became known as Polyanka. Today there is not much remaining of this village.
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
---|---|---|---|---|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
1859 |
|
515
|
|
|
1883 |
|
791
|
|
|
1889 |
|
863
|
|
|
1897 |
|
1,109*
|
565
|
544
|
1905 |
|
1,510
|
|
|
1910 |
|
1,922
|
|
|
1912 |
|
2,000
|
|
|
1920 |
245
|
1,520
|
|
|
1922 |
|
1,032
|
|
|
1926 |
204
|
943
|
454
|
489
|
1931 |
|
1,226**
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,103 were German.
**Of whom 1,205 were German.
Lutheran
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon . Moscow, 2006.
Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 313.
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 18.