Orlovskaya was originally part of the parish headquartered in Katharinenstadt. In 1820, it became part of the parish headquartered in Näb .
A new Lutheran church was built in Orlovskaya in 1860 by architect Frederick Lagus. During the Soviet era, the building was used as a granary and warehouse - the same fate of many Volga German churches. In 1960, the bell tower was removed. Following a fire in 1969, the building was rebuilt and now houses a community center and the village library.
Orlovskaya was founded on 7 June 1767 by Baron Caneau de Beauregard as a Lutheran colony.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
87
|
284
|
151
|
133
|
| 1769 |
90
|
312
|
168
|
144
|
| 1773 |
82
|
322
|
179
|
143
|
| 1788 |
72
|
344
|
188
|
156
|
| 1798 |
74
|
415
|
219
|
196
|
| 1816 |
104
|
791
|
398
|
393
|
| 1834 |
175
|
1,302
|
674
|
628
|
| 1850 |
238
|
1,769
|
892
|
877
|
| 1857 |
211
|
2,217
|
1,101
|
1,116
|
| 1859 |
199
|
2,376
|
1,181
|
1,195
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
3,775*
|
1,891
|
1,884
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
537
|
6,192
|
3,082
|
3,110
|
| 1912 |
|
6,517
|
|
|
| 1920 |
600
|
4,370
|
|
|
| 1926** |
526
|
2,759
|
1,297
|
1,462
|
*Of whom 3,768 were German.
**Of those, 2,709 (1,265 male & 1,444 female) were German living in 521 households.
Lutheran
Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764 . Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 352.
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 613.
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.
- Orlovskaya (Wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian