Alternate Names
Basel-Mius-Khutor; Baseler; Chkalovo; Erlenbach; Schmidt
Gallery
Church
Erlenbach was a Lutheran colony and belonged to the parish headquartered in Gnadenflur .
Type of Settlement
History
Erlenbach was founded in 1840 by colonists from Basel (the Sander family), Meinhard , and Philippsfeld. Erlenbach was located 29 kilometers northeast of Fedorovka on the right bank of the Mius River.
Population
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1889 |
|
275
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
428
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
465
|
|
|
| 1920 |
88***
|
720
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
883
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
844
|
|
|
| 1926* |
103
|
710
|
343
|
367
|
| 1931 |
|
916**
|
|
|
*Of whom 701 were German (100 households: 337 male & 364 female).
**Of whom 910 were German.
***Of whom 85 households were German.
Sources
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon . Moscow, 2006.
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.