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Peskovka (Russian: Песковка) is a rural locality (a selo) in the Medveditskoe rural settlement, Zhirnovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia.
Peskovka
Песковка | |
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Selo | |
  Peskovka  Peskovka | |
| Coordinates: 51°04′06″N 44°57′32″E / 51.06833°N 44.95889°E[1] | |
| Country | Russia |
| Region | Volgograd Oblast |
| District | Zhirnovsky District |
| Time zone | UTC+4:00 |
It was formerly a Volga German colony in Russia, named Peskovatka, established in 1767, 90 km south-west of the regional center of Saratov.[2] While the Russian administration named the colony Peskovatka (after the nearby stream), the German people residing there called their colony Kolb, after the first "Vorsteher" (administrative leader) of the colony, Andreas Kolb, who was from Hessenberg.[3][4]
On August 28, 1941, the Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet on the resettlement of Germans living in the Volga region was issued and the German population was deported to Siberia. The village of Peskovatka was later renamed Peskovka.
References
edit- ^ Село Алешники на карте
- ^ Peskovka, Volgograd Oblast, Russia, Google Maps
- ^ Drake, Linda. "Brief history of German's from Russia and Rutt family history". History Harvest. History Harvest. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- ^ Plehve, Igor. The Volga Germans of Kolb - Peskovatka. Saratov, Russia: Saratov State University.