Data for the development of the population in Neu Samara


Year
 Number
 Source
1890 Settlement of nearly 500 families with 2,600 persons
P.M.Friesen
"Geschichte der Alt-Evangelischen Mennoniten Brüderschaft in Russland"
1905
 Pleschanowo Mennonite Congregation numbers 1,034 baptized members and altogether 2,691 persons
 George K. Epp
"Geschichte der Mennoniten in Russland" Volume III
1908
 1,503 taxable adults in the age of 14 - 60 years
 P.M.Friesen
"Geschichte der Alt-Evangelischen Mennoniten Brüderschaft in Russland"
1909
 1,520 taxable adults in the age of 14 - 60 years the same
1917
 3,670 inhabitants on 35,695 Desjatins and 9 estates
 "Neu Samara am Tock"
1926
 3,071 mennonite und 66 non-mennonite inhabitants
 Mennonitisches Lexikon
1923-1928
 Emigration of ca. 700 persons to Canada
 "Neu Samara am Tock"
1930
 Emigration of more then 58 persons from Neu Samara to Paraguay
Mennonite Passenger lists for Refugee Transport to Paraguay in 1930
MMHS-Site
1989
 7.434 persons or 26 % of the population of Krasnogwardejskij Rayon are Germans (state 12.01.1989)

 Census 1989
 
Single villages

A list from the book "Neu Samara am Tock" propably from the year 1908, because Annenskoje is already mentioned and it was founded in 1908.
Krassikowo
 221 souls
 45 Farms
 4860 acres
Podolsk
 263 souls 47 Farms 5000 acres
Pleschanowo
 258 souls 49 Farms 4700 acres
Lugowsk
 305 souls 64 Farms 3248 acres
Donskoj
 298 souls 45 Farms 4860 acres
Dolinsk
 220 souls 44 Farms 4800 acres
Bogomasowo
 284 souls 34 Farms 3672 acres
Annenskoje
 93 souls 15 Farms 2025 acres
Ischalka
 212 souls 22 Farms 2700 acres
Klinok
 246 souls 33 Farms 4700 acres
Jugowka
 175 souls 35 Farms 3780 acres
Kaltan
 251 souls 45 Farms 4800 acres
Kuterlja
 195 souls 40 Farms 4320 acres
Kamenez
 150 souls 33 Farms 3600 acres
altogether
 3,171 souls
 551 Farms 57,065 acres
 
We took the next data from the list of all German villages in Russia on http://eiprd.ru/. For the inhabitants number the issues of the census in 1926 were used (except of extra declared). Some numbers doesn't correspondent with other sources. For example according to this list Dolinsk had 302 inhabitants in 1926, but it's 76 more then the number for 1919 from the other source. Such rising is unpropably.

village
 entire population
 Germans
Annenskoje 100
 100
Bogomasowo 288
 282
Dolinsk 302
 295
Donskoj
 305
 282
Ischalka 180
 180
Jugowka
 208
 208
Kamenez 188
 188
Kaltan 275
 275
Klinok
 221
 221
Krassikowo
 201
 194
Kuterlja 205
 191
Lugowsk
 311
 311
Pleschanowo
 264
 259
Podolsk
 296
 280
Wladimirowka
 49 (1930)
altogether
 3.393

In the same list are further settlements in Luxemburg Rayon with possibly German population part. Propably all Germans moved already before 1926 from these settlements. They are mostly estates.

settlement
 inhabitants
Blagodatnoje
 22
Helenopol
35
Krassikow-Gut
 6
Nar-Tock
 32 (1930)
Rawnopol
 62
Chutor na Tocku (Estate at Tock)
 35


Podolsk
50 years after settlement 77 families with 358 persons
100 years after settlement 208 german und 58 russian and mixed families, altogether 970 inhabitants
192 german und 20 mixed families moved to Germany till 1997
Source: "Neu Samara am Tock" private statistics

Dolinsk
March 25th 1919: 226 persons, 122 male
January 15th 1970: 482 inhabitants
Juny 1st 1990: 135 households with 466 persons.

Donskoj
1989 642 families with 2,428 persons
366 families with 1,417 persons moved to Germany till 2000
Source: "Neu Samara am Tock"

Pleschanowo
2001 3,600 inhabitants
Source: internet

Summary

The fixing of the total number of all persons coming from Neu Samara must also consider those who in the course of time moved from Neu Samara voluntarily or forced. Some families have already done the beginning in 1906, when many of the Neu-Samarians moved to the new settlements in Siberia. After the revolution all richer Neu-Samarians had to flee, above all the estate owners and storekeepers. However, the big wave came in the 20-s as many emigrated to North America and South America. After the World War II the persons drawn in the Trudarmy might not immediately come home, many have returned then no more to Neu Samara. Then later many young people from Neu Samara moved to the towns. Therefore the number of the persons, living today, moved away before 1988 and their descendants, probably exceeds the number of  the remained till 1988. Altogether the number of all persons, born self or their forefathers in Neu Samara, is propably more then 20,000.