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Neu-Samara History of a Mennonite settlement in Russia
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    • Aerial Views of the Villages
  • People & Memories
    • C.F. Klassen
    • Jacob Wieler
    • Johann Walde
    • Report by Katharina Nachtigal
    • Anna Wiens
    • Report from Dolores Reimer
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    • Journal Rückblick
    • Changes and additions in Neu-Samara book
  • Further Information
    • Museum Detmold
    • Glossary
    • Neu Samara Cenetary video
    • Auf Augenhöhe
    • Gathering of Former Dolinsk Residents
    • Cycling Through Poland, 2026
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Menu
  • Home
  • Authors
  • Photos
  • Old Newspapers
  • Links
  • Changes
  • History & Settlement
    • Religious origins
    • Westprussia
    • Movement to Russia
    • Purchase Contract
    • Overlook 1890-1990
    • Nuclear Test in Totskoye in 1954
    • Administrative Development
    • Stalins Victims
    • America
  • Villages & Everyday Life
    • Annenskoje
    • Ischalka
    • Kamenez
    • Kuterlja
    • Podolsk
    • Population
    • Landscape and Clima
    • Economy untill 1930
    • Architecture
    • Maps
    • Aerial Views of the Villages
  • People & Memories
    • C.F. Klassen
    • Jacob Wieler
    • Johann Walde
    • Report by Katharina Nachtigal
    • Anna Wiens
    • Report from Dolores Reimer
  • Materials
    • Books
    • Downloads
    • Journal Rückblick
    • Changes and additions in Neu-Samara book
  • Further Information
    • Museum Detmold
    • Glossary
    • Neu Samara Cenetary video
    • Auf Augenhöhe
    • Gathering of Former Dolinsk Residents
    • Cycling Through Poland, 2026

Links

Checked on 20 October 2026. A responding server does not guarantee that every page will remain available.

Existing links

Genealogy and local history

  • Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society
    A Canadian website about Mennonite history, with genealogical information on West Prussia, Chortitza, and Molotschna.
  • Willi Vogt: Mennonite Genealogical Research
    Information on Mennonite settlements in Russia, their history, and genealogy. This address currently redirects to chortitza.org.
  • Kitschkas
    A website about Kitschkas, another village in the Orenburg settlement.
  • Iwanowka
    A personal website by Waldemar Penner about the Mennonite village of Iwanowka in western Siberia, 120 km west of Omsk. One interesting project is a Plautdietsch dictionary.

Plautdietsch

  • Plautdietsch Freunde e.V.
    The society’s official website. Founded in Oerlinghausen, Germany, in 1999, the society documents, nurtures, and promotes Plautdietsch and provides an international forum through its journal Plautdietsch FRIND.
  • GAMEO
    Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online, an English-language encyclopedia project about Anabaptists and Mennonites.
  • Wikipedia: Mennonites
    The free encyclopedia, with articles on Mennonite history and contemporary life.

Dead links

These addresses were unavailable on the day they were checked.

  • Shdanowka
    Formerly a personal website by David Krahn about the village of Shdanowka in the Orenburg settlement. The hostname could not be resolved on 20 October 2026.
  • Opplautdietsch
    Formerly a personal website by Viktor Sawatzki (“Viktor, von Sewen”), mainly in Plautdietsch, with an extensive collection of Plautdietsch poems, including works by Heinrich Dück. A manual visit returned HTTP 403.
Neu-Samara

By Dietrich Tissen and Nikolaj Tissen

A historical record of Neu-Samara and its people.