Alternate Names
Martiazhka,
Martijeschka,
Martiyeshka,
Sichelberg,
Serpogorskoe
Church
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Type of Settlement
History
Sichelberg was founded in 1849 as a Lutheran colony.
Population
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1850 |
|
|
|
|
| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
849*
|
435
|
414
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
1,400
|
|
|
| 1920 |
201
|
1,202
|
|
|
| 1926 |
162
|
864**
|
418
|
446
|
*Of whom 842 were German.
**Of whom 861 were German (161 households: 417 male & 444 female).
Religion
Lutheran
Sources
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): 16.