Huck, also known as Splavnukha or Splaunucha, was founded on 1 July 1767 with 79 families from the area of Isenburg and Palatinate.  The village is located on the Bergseite, approximately 50 miles southwest of Saratov along the Yelkhovka Creek, near the Splavnukha River from which it takes the Russian name.

Population of the Village (Courtesy of the Center for Volga German Studies)

YEAR	Households	Total	Male	Female
1767		306
1769	79	319	161	158
1773	80	380	195	183
1788	78	570	282	288
1798	87	643	325	318
1816	126	1,209	592	617
1834	210	2,120	1,078	1,042
1850	228	3,491	1,752	1,739
1857	372	4,241	2,110	2,131
1859	322	4,328	2,184	2,144
1886*	535	5,191	2,565	2,626
1891	400	7,384	3,688	3,696
1894	387	7,309	3,677	3,632
1897		5,134**
1905		7,200
1911		9,866
1920		6,348
1922		4,938
1926		5,031***	2,431	2,583
1931		5,200****

*Including 172 families that have permanently relocated elsewhere (to daughter colonies on the Wiesenseite, to the Caucasus, and to America.
**Of whom 5,109 were German.
***Of whom 5,014 were German.
****Of whom 5,188 were German.