The congregation in Jost was part of the Warenburg Lutheran Parish which had been established in 1770.
Jost was a Lutheran colony, founded on 5 July 1767 by LeRoy & Pictet.
The colony of Jost no longer exists. The location of the streets, however, is still visible from satellite images.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
87
|
232
|
|
|
| 1769 |
73
|
238
|
126
|
112
|
| 1773 |
66
|
219
|
121
|
98
|
| 1788 |
|
|
|
|
| 1798 |
54
|
264
|
|
|
| 1816 |
|
|
|
|
| 1834 |
72
|
548
|
269
|
279
|
| 1850 |
93
|
937
|
459
|
478
|
| 1857 |
105
|
1,082
|
528
|
554
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,399
|
726
|
673
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
2,526
|
|
|
| 1920 |
231*
|
1,826
|
|
|
| 1926** |
228
|
1,356
|
662
|
694
|
*Of which 229 households were German.
**Of whom 1,351 were German (226 households: 659 male & 692 female).
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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): 17.
Willkommen nach Jost (Beth Davenport)