Hummel was founded on 14 July 1767 by Baron Caneau de Beauregard. It was a Lutheran colony located 303 versts from Samara.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
|
|
|
|
| 1769 |
16
|
109
|
52
|
57
|
| 1773 |
22
|
86
|
35
|
51
|
| 1788 |
23
|
107
|
56
|
51
|
| 1798 |
35
|
142
|
78
|
64
|
| 1816 |
34
|
243
|
121
|
122
|
| 1834 |
47
|
431
|
216
|
215
|
| 1850 |
64
|
567
|
289
|
278
|
| 1857 |
69
|
645
|
334
|
311
|
| 1859 |
|
666
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
757
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
999
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,044
|
501
|
543
|
| 1905 |
|
1,438
|
|
|
| 1910 |
250
|
1,572
|
780
|
792
|
| 1912 |
|
1,650
|
|
|
| 1920 |
215
|
1,396
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
780
|
|
|
| 1926 |
148
|
771
|
385
|
386
|
| 1931 |
|
990*
|
|
|
*Of whom 988 were German.
Lutheran
Censuses : 1798, 1857
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Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
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): 2:13; 4:52-53.
List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 292.
Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 613.
Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
Brockhausen (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian