Several dams were built in the Volga, and the water rose high. As a consequence, the villages of Danilovka, Miller, and Schwab are standing under water. The old Tsherbakovka was transfered to a mountain, but the Russian Tsherbakovka is totally under water. Muehlberg-Tsherbakovka, my home village, is totally destroyed, as also are many other German villages. You wanted to know more of the history or the fate of the Germans at the Volga.
All German villages have the same history.
After the 1919 Revolution, life was peaceful with much toil and work, resulting in great success in agriculture. Beginning in 1929, the Kolchos Years were hard and work was troublesome, but no success in the agriculture. And when all imposed tributes had been handed over to the State in produce and taxes, nothing was left over to pay the worker. In 1941, came the war. In September, all Volga Germans and all Germans in the USSR were driven from their homes to Siberia, the Taiga, into the coal, mineral and gold mines.