Kukkus was founded on 26 June 1767 as a Reformed colony by the private recruiters LeRoy & Pictet.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
51
|
187
|
|
|
| 1769 |
46
|
167
|
83
|
84
|
| 1773 |
44
|
181
|
100
|
81
|
| 1788 |
|
228
|
|
|
| 1798 |
|
315
|
|
|
| 1816 |
|
343
|
|
|
| 1834 |
|
826
|
|
|
| 1850 |
|
1,202
|
|
|
| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
1,524
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
2,226
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
2,233
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,419*
|
1,201
|
1,218
|
| 1904 |
|
3,432
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
3,334
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
3,796
|
|
|
| 1920 |
|
2,709
|
|
|
| 1922 |
395**
|
2,228
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
3,020
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
489
|
2,731
|
1,308
|
1,423
|
| 1939 |
|
3,108
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,367 were German.
**Of which 382 households were German.
***Of whom 2,684 were German (470 households: 1,284 male & 1,400 female).
Reformed
Censuses - 1767, 1798, 1834, 1850, 1857
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): 351.
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon . Moscow, 2006.
Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II , 14 February 1769.
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 197.
Kukkus Families Database (Rick Felsing)