Labour Commune of Volga Germans

The Labour Commune of Volga Germans (German: Arbeitskommune der Wolgadeutschen; Russian: Трудовая коммуна немцев Поволжья, romanized: Trudovaya kommuna nemtsev Povolzh'ya) was a polity established in Russia following the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917. The Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic passed a decree which established this^[1]

Labour Commune of Volga Germans in 1922

The administrative centre was originally located in the city of Saratov, but was relocated to Yekaterinenstadt, which was renamed Marxstadt a few weeks later in June 1919.

The polity consisted of three districts (Uyezds):

• Goly Karamysh District centred on Goly Karamysh
• Yekaterinenstadt District centred on Yekaterinenstadt (Marxstadt)
• Rovnoye District centred on Rovnoye

It was restructured as the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on February 20, 1924 (claims of December 19, 1923),^[1] by the Declaration of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR.