Neu-Zürich

Alternate Names

Neu-Zürich; Novo-Zorkino; Zurikovskii

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Church

Neu-Zürich was a Lutheran colony and belonged to the parish headquartered in Gnadenflur.

Type of Settlement

History

The daughter colony of Neu-Zürich was located 14 kilometers northeast of Fedorovka on the right bank of the Bolshoi Karaman River 130 kilometers northeast of Engels and was originally settled by colonists from Zürich.

Population

Population Table
Year	Households	Population
Year	Households	Total	Male	Female
1889		145
1897		232
1910		232
1920	103*	679
1922		657
1926	65	352**	178	174
1931		683***

*Of which 97 households were German.
**Of whom 351 were German (64 households: 177 male & 174 female).
***Of whom 678 were German.

Sources

Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon . Moscow, 2006.

Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.