In the early years, Kolb was part of the Frank parish.
Kolb was founded on 13 May 1767 by the Government as a Lutheran colony.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
32
|
88
|
|
|
| 1769 |
23
|
107
|
62
|
45
|
| 1773 |
31
|
143
|
83
|
60
|
| 1788 |
39
|
240
|
133
|
107
|
| 1798 |
52
|
357
|
187
|
170
|
| 1816 |
60
|
567
|
276
|
291
|
| 1834 |
109
|
950
|
502
|
448
|
| 1850 |
124
|
1,531
|
769
|
762
|
| 1857 |
183
|
1,885
|
943
|
942
|
| 1859 |
174
|
1,887
|
945
|
942
|
| 1883 |
|
2,559
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,721
|
1,334
|
1,387
|
| 1905 |
|
2,722
|
|
|
| 1911 |
|
2,581
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
3,800
|
|
|
| 1920 |
354
|
2,613
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
2,575
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,669
|
|
|
| 1926 |
469
|
2956*
|
1,443
|
1,513
|
| 1931 |
|
3,054**
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,950 (1,437 male and 1,513 female) were German.
**Of whom 3,053 were German.
Lutheran
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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.
Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies . Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869.
Minkh, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province . Saratov, Russia, 1898.
Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II , 14 February 1769.
Pleve, Igor R. The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century , translated by Richard Rye (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2001): 318.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 18.
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