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The Nikolayevka [[Mennonite Brethren Church|Mennonite Brethren]] Church, located in the [[Bachmut (Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine)|Bachmut Mennonite Settlement]] (New York), [[Ekaterinoslav Guberniya (Ukraine)|province of Ekaterinoslav]], South Russia, was founded in 1889 by Mennonites coming from the [[Chortitza Mennonite Settlement (Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)|Chortitza settlement]]. The congregation was at first affiliated with the [[Einlage Mennonite Brethren Church (Einlage, Chortitza Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)|Einlage Mennonite Brethren Church]] under the leadership of [[Regehr, Gerhard P. (1866-1960)|Gerhard Regehr]]. It became independent in 1905, when [[Neufeld, Hermann Abram (1860-1931)|Hermann A. Neufeld]] was ordained elder. Other ministers who served the congregation were Cornelius Grunau, who later emigrated to the United States, Abraham Pätkau, Paul Wiebe, Johann Schellenberg, Johann Siemens, Peter Wiebe, David Block, Wilhelm Klassen, Peter Janzen, Peter Krause, Johann Froese, Johann Klassen, Peter Siemens. In 1905 the total population of the congregation was 501 and the number of baptized members was 146. For a while the Mennonites and the Mennonite Brethren worshiped at the same place on alternate Sundays. In 1923 Hermann A. Neufeld emigrated to [[Canada|Canada]] and a number of other members followed. Little is known of the congregation after this date. So far as is known, the congregation survived the troubles of the 1920s and 1930s but its fate was sealed during [[World War (1939-1945) - Soviet Union|World War II]].


= Bibliography =
Dirks, Heinrich. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Statistik der Mennonitengemeinden in Russland Ende 1905 (Anhang zum Mennonitischen Jahrbuche 1904/05)</em>. Gnadenfeld: Dirks, 1905.

Friesen, Peter M. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Die Alt-Evangelische Mennonitische Brüderschaft in Russland (1789-1910) im Rahmen der mennonitischen Gesamtgeschichte</em>. Halbstadt: Verlagsgesellschaft "Raduga," 1911: 476.

Unruh, A. H. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Die Geschichte der Mennoniten-Brudergemeinde. </em>Winnipeg,  1954: 201.


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