Industry

Among the Volga Germans were prominent industrialists. The Schmidt, Reineke and Borel families were among the most prominent, controlling the sarpinka industry in the Volga German region.

Industries

Photograph from "Wolgadeutsche Architektur" by Dr. Sergei Terjochin, great-grandson of German Russian settler Andreas Stoll, a steam-mill owner Engels (Pokrovsk), 1897.

Photograph of the Borel mill in 2006.

Postcard of the Reineke Mill in Saratov.

A. K. Reineke house in Saratov - now an art museum

Former German mill in Saratov. Built in the 1880s, it continues to be used.

Borell Mill

Postcard of a Volga German steam sawmill for the manufacture of wood products. The mill was owned by the brothers K., E. and F. Bauer of Sarepta, Saratov.

Remains of the Hergert mill in Volgograd (Stalingrad). This stands as part of the memorial to the battle of Stalingrad during WWII.