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From: Ted Gerk <>
Subject: Volga Village Nicknames: Marienfeld
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:53:27 -0800

The nickname for Marienfeld was:

"Spatzenkhutor"

"Around 1828, the colonist Brunner from Ust Kalalinka (Galka) who was called
by the nickname "Spatz" (sparrow), founded a khutor on this site and started
to grow grain."
From: "A brief description of settlements in Ilavlin County, Kamyshin
District, Saratov Provincial Reports, No. 46 (1890) pp. 356-358
Translation in AHSGR Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 1983

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