Links & Books

More Web Pages About Schönchen (Шенхен), Russia

• Schönchen - Volga German History and Genealogy (in Russian)
• Schönchen - Center for Volga German Studies at Concordia University
• Schönchen Forum at wolgadeutsche.net - a Volga German History and Genealogy (in Russian)
• Schönchen Genealogy Forum (Russian website)
• Panino (Saratov Region) / Панино_(Саратовская_область) Wikipedia page (in Russian)
• Painting of the Schoenchen church by Michael Boss
• Pre-WWII Map showing location of Schönchen and other nearby villages

More Upper Volga Village Web Sites

• Obermunjou
• Wittmann
• Zug

Organizations and Other Volga German Resources

• American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR)
• The Center for Volga German Studies at Concordia University
• Die Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen - in Russian
• Cyndi's List Germans from Russia
• North Dakota State University Germans from Russia Heritage Collection
• Bishop Joseph Werth, S.J., D.D. Bishop Werth serves Siberia and the Russia Far East. His parents were natives of Schönchen, Russia.

Kansas Links

• Volga German Heritage of Ellis and Rush Counties in Kansas
• Golden Jubilee of the German-Russian Settlements of Ellis and Rush Counties
• From Far Away Russia (Kansas State Historical Society)
• Linguistic Atlas of Kansas German Dialects at the University of Kansas Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures - listen to a recording of a Schoenchen, Kansas German speaker

Books for Sale

• AHSGR's Store
• Kevin Rupp's Volga German Research materials