# Old Sarepta

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{{Short description|District of Volgograd, Russia}}
'''Old Sarepta''' (Russian: Старая Сарепта), now '''Krasnoarmeyskiy Rayon''', is a district of [Volgograd](/source/Volgograd), in Russia.

Sarepta was founded 28 kilometers south of [Tsaritsyn](/source/Tsaritsyn) by the [Moravian Brethren](/source/Moravian_Brethren)  in 1765 when [Catherine II](/source/Catherine_the_Great) sought to attract German settlers (so-called [Volga Germans](/source/Volga_Germans)) to expand crop production in southern Russia and defend against the invasions of [Kalmyk](/source/Kalmyk_people), [Kazakh](/source/Kazakhs), and [Tatar](/source/Tatars) tribes. Its name comes from Sarepta in [I Kings](/source/Books_of_Kings) 17:9-10 and here derives from that of the Sarpa river, which flows into the [Volga](/source/Volga) nearby.

The city was renamed '''Krasnoarmeysk''' in 1920, and became a district of [Volgograd](/source/Volgograd) (then Stalingrad)  in 1931.

A set of eighteenth-century buildings in Sarepta that escaped the bombing during the [Battle of Stalingrad](/source/Battle_of_Stalingrad) is since 1990 an open-air museum called the Old Sarepta Museum of History and Ethnography.

When the German Lutheran church tried to bring Old Serepta under its influence, some of the Moravian Brethren emigrated to Canada and founded [New Sarepta](/source/New_Sarepta).

==References==
* Lächele, Rainer ''Die Herrnhuter-Kolonie Sarepta und die Mennonitensiedlung Chortitza''. Wolgograd, 2001.

==External links==
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* [http://www.visitvolgograd.info/eSarepta.html Article about the museum]
* [https://cvgs.cu-portland.edu/who-are-volga-germans/settlements/other-settlements/sarepta  Article about Old Sarepta] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106213807/https://cvgs.cu-portland.edu/who-are-volga-germans/settlements/other-settlements/sarepta |date=2019-11-06 }}

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Category:Museums in Volgograd Oblast
Category:Cities and towns in Volgograd Oblast
Category:Open-air museums in Russia
Category:History museums in Russia
Category:Volga German settlements

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