At the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, ethnic Germans numbered around 2,040,000, making them one of the largest ethnic minorities there. Russia was home to more than 840,000 of them, while in Kazakhstan, there were a total of 960,000 Germans. Germans constituted around 6% of the total population of Kaazakhstan.… Continue reading Volga Germans – an endangered species in the Former Soviet Union