DISTRICT / AIMAG
German National District
REGION
Altai Krai
Redkaya Dubrava
The village of Redkaya Dubrava in the German National District of Altai Krai was founded in 1908 by Mennonite settlers.
A historical photograph, village view, landscape, or related heritage object will be displayed here at a later date.
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German National District
Altai Krai
Historical background
The village was founded in 1908 as a Mennonite settlement in the Orlovskaya volost; before the revolution, a prayer house and a school were already operating here. During the period of collectivization, the "Margiz" collective farm was created, and in 1950 the village became the center of the enlarged collective farm named after K. Marx (now LLC Brucke Agro), where residents of neighboring farmsteads and liquidated small villages were actively resettled. From the autumn of 1957, the teaching of the German language as a native language was resumed in the school, and in 1991 the village became part of the restored German National District.
Place, memory, heritage
Historical and cultural legacy
The village has a House of Culture (1967), a rural library with a museum corner, a branch of the children's school of arts, and a school museum with a reconstruction of the interior of a German house and materials about the fates of repressed people (founded in 2006). Memorial objects are represented by a monument to V.I. Lenin and the Memorial of Glory to the participants of the Great Patriotic War and labor army soldiers, restored in 2018. The Orthodox local religious organization of the Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church was liquidated in 2022.
Natural surroundings
The village is located on the flat relief of the Kulunda Plain at an altitude of 145 meters above sea level and is surrounded by fields with southern chernozems and forest shelterbelts; in the settlement itself, there is a well-maintained rural park.
Historical and cultural legacy
The village has a House of Culture (1967), a rural library with a museum corner, a branch of the children's school of arts, and a school museum with a reconstruction of the interior of a German house and materials about the fates of repressed people (founded in 2006). Memorial objects are represented by a monument to V.I. Lenin and the Memorial of Glory to the participants of the Great Patriotic War and labor army soldiers, restored in 2018. The Orthodox local religious organization of the Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church was liquidated in 2022.
Living culture and memory
The village preserves the legend of a well-border dividing the residents into hostile western and eastern halves. Local traditions include Christmas carols, the German carnival Fasching before Lent, horse racing on the Day of the Village, and ethno-cultural festivals. Based in the House of Culture and the ethno-cultural club, there are choreographic groups "Credo" and "Veselye Minutki", and gastronomic culture is supported by participation in culinary marathons and master classes on baking traditional Easter cakes.
