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Lysanderhöhe was a village of the [[Am Trakt Mennonite Settlement (Samara Oblast, Russia)|Am Trakt Mennonite settlement]] in the province of [[Samara Oblast (Russia)|Samara]], [[Russia|Russia]], founded in 1864, consisting in 1897 of 22 farms, with a population of 119. A part of the population joined the trek to [[Turkestan|Turkestan]] in 1891, while others immigrated to America. In 1914 the population was 146. [[Bartsch, Franz (1854-1931)|Franz Bartsch]], the author of <em>Unser Auszug nach Mittelasien, </em>was the teacher of the village school. After the [[Russian Revolution and Civil War|Revolution of 1917]] the cultural and economic level of the village began to decline. Some of the inhabitants went to [[Canada|Canada]] and others were exiled. Little is known about the fate of those who remained and the later status of the village.
= Bibliography =
Dyck, Johannes J. based on a text by W.E. Surukin. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Am Trakt: A Mennonite Settlement in the Central Volga Region</em>. Translated by Hermina Joldersma and Peter J.Dyck. Winnipeg: CMBC Publications, 1995.

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. ''Mennonitisches Lexikon'', 4 vols. Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 709. 

Surukin, W. E. und Johannes J. Dyck. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Am Trakt, Eine Mennonitische Kolonie im Mittleren Wolgagebiet</em>.North Kildonan, Man., 1948.
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