Germans from Russia Settlement Locations

1911 “Historische Karte von Alt-Livland” (Historical Map of Old Livonia) by Leonid Arhusow. Source: DIGAR Digital Archive , National Library...

This map recently caught my attention.  It appeared briefly in a YouTube video titled “Why the Soviet Union was obsessed with corn.” The vid...

This site will be on hiatus for a while as I deal with some personal business following the death of an old friend who was like family. Than...

Updates have been made to the Germans from Russia Settlement Locations and German Settlements in European Russia maps to show where German...

Today marks four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Between 1766 and 1944, Germans lived in over 3,000...

“The cultural heritage of the Black Sea Germans has not disappeared despite the trials and tribulations of history. It lives on in the rust...

Ten years ago today, 11 February 2016, the Germans from Russia Settlement Locations project began with 103 German villages on a Google MyMap...

View of the 100 Years – Portraits of a Century of Lives exhibit. Gideon Boschee (1917-2025) was the oldest subject at 105 years when his po...