Gammalsvenskby
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Gammalsvenskby is a former village that is now a neighbourhood of Zmiivka in Beryslav Raion of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. It was briefly known as Verbivka prior to being integrated with Zmiivka. Gammals
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The former Swedish church in Gammalsvenskby. St John's Lutheran parish church has been rebuilt and serves as an Orthodox church today
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Memorial to the 16 men and one woman from Gammalsvenskby who were killed or disappeared in the Stalinist purge of 1937–1938.
Black Sea Germans
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The Black Sea Germans are ethnic Germans who left their homelands, and settled in territories off the north coast of the Black Sea, mostly in the territories of the southern Russian Empire.
Gammalsvenskby
…Gammalsvenskby. In 1802, the Russian government ordered all male Swedes to marry by the age of 30 in an effort to boost the population. From 1787 to 1805, German colonists were invited to Gammalsvenskby to bolster the region's population. The Germans referred to the area as the "Schwedengebiet" (Swedish District) and the…
German graves (early 19th century) in the village of Pshonyanove, Odesa Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine
Distribution of ethnic Germans in Central/Eastern Europe in 1925, also highlighting German settlements in Ukraine
A refugee trek of Black Sea Germans during the Second World War in Hungary, July 1944
Trinity Church in Kandel (today part of Lymanske)