Sofiewka, Bessarabia
- Region: Black Sea
- Area: Bessarabia
- District: Kahul
- Rayon:
- Founded: 1892
- Religion: Evangelical Lutheran
- Location: A-9 Stumpp Map
- Longitute and Latitude:
- Parish: Albota
- German Name: Sofiewka
- Russian Name:
- Ukrainian Name:
Remarks:
Founded in 1892 by families from Wittenberg, Alt Posttal, Tarutino, Kulm, Beresina, Neu Elft, Katzbach and the three daughter colonies of Neu Odessa, and Unter and Ober-Albota. They purchased the land from the estate owner of Aswadurow of Akkermann.
Books:
From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (page 120)
Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans by Pastor Albert Kern, village history (pp. 51), list of MIA/deaths in WWI/II pp. 308-309.
- St. Petersburg Archives 187X Freudental Parish shows a few listings for Sophiental
War Records
- EWZ Records
- DAI Bessarabia Village Reports
- DAI Miscellaneous Reports
- Evacuation from Bessarabia & Bukovina
- Bessarabia Koblenz Index Derivative
Supplemental Information
- Bessarabia Head of Household Index
- Bessarabia Surnames Origins Index
- Heimatbuch der Dobrudscha Deutschen Surname Index
- Christian Fiess Indices
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