Degott

Alternate Names
Degott,
Dejgott,
Kamenny Ovrag,
Kamenny Owrag,
Kamennyi Ovrag
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Type of Settlement
History

Degott was founded as a Catholic colony on 18 July 1766 by Baron de Boffe.

Population
Population Table
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1766
12
34
15
19
1767
14
42
 
 
1769
12
43
22
21
1773
14
50
27
23
1788
8
48
27
21
1798
13
78
42
36
1816
10
70
34
36
1834
25
166
87
79
1850
28
228
118
110
1857
26
248
123
125
1862
23
263
130
133
1886
45
379
197
182
1891
 
 
 
 
1894
46
421
216
205
1897
 
 
 
 
1904
 
 
 
 
1911
 
576
 
 
1912
 
658
 
 
1920
79
543
 
 
1922
 
456
 
 
1926
87
518
250
268
1931
 
615
 
 
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): 349.

Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.

Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 379-381.

Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II , 14 February 1769.

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): 622.

Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 263-266.

Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.