Kolb

Names

Kolb, Peskovatka, Peskovka, Peskowatka

Location

51º04' N 44º59' E

History

      Kolb was founded on 13 May 1767 by the Government as a Lutheran colony.

Church

      In the early years, Kolb was part of the Frank parish.

Pastors

Population

Population Table

Year	Households	Population
		Total	Male	Female
1767		88
1769		107
1773	31	143	83	60
1788	39	240	133	107
1798	52	357	187	170
1816	60	567	276	291
1834	109	950	502	448
1850	124	1,531	769	762
1857	183	1,885	943	942
1859	174	1,887	945	942
1883		2,559
1891
1894
1897		2,721
1905		2,722
1911		2,581
1912		3,800
1920		2,613
1922		2,575
1923		2,669
1926	469	2956*	1,443	1,513
1931		3,054**

*Of whom 2,950 (1,437 male and 1,513 female) were German.
**Of whom 3,053 were German.

Sources:
- 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): 350.
- Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists. Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005.
- Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869.
- Minkh, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province. Saratov, Russia, 1898.
- Pleve, Igor R. The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century, translated by Richard Rye (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2001): 318.

External Links

Kolb (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian

Former "wooden" school in Kolb.
Source: Vladimir Krainev (2007)
at Wolgadeutsche.net.

Former "red" school in Kolb.
Source: Vladimir Krainev (2007)
at Wolgadeutsche.net.