Rohleder (Raskaty), a German Catholic colony, was established on the "Wiesenseite"  or "meadow side" of the Volga River on the 14th of June 1766. The colony was founded by LeRoy and Picet. 

Population of the Village

YEAR	Households	Total	Male	Female
1766		155
1769		159
1773	46	208	111	97
1788
1798	36	219	103	116
1816		316
1834	86	586
1850	106	935	472	463
1857	130	1,134	572	562
1859		1.174
1883		1,290
1889		1,623
1897		1,835
1905		2,267
1910		2,527
1912		2,359
1920		2,354

1931

2,268

Rohleder Church taken in September of 2009

Building in Rohleder taken in 2009

Rohleder Cemetery taken in September 2009
There were no German Russian Names on the markers.

A statue of Lenin located in the town square.
Many of these busts were located in the town squares.
Photos taken by Kevin Rupp from his trip in 2009.

According to researcher, Dr. Igor Pleve, he lists those first settlers in his book "Einwanderung in das Wolgagebeit, 1764-1767, Band 2" as:

FIRST SETTLERS LIST - HEADS of FAMILIES: George Rohleder, Georgart Weber, Peter Hergert, Matthias Reim, Johann Rohleder, Martin Glassmann, Philipp Glocker, Franz Peter Brungardt, Peter Auer, Hans Adam Braun, Andreas Braun, Christian Rohr, Johannes Hoffmann, Andreas Schneider, Jacob Kapp, Johannes Jung, Johannes Weber, Friedrich Koch, Georg Koch, Antony Lelender, Joseph Frank, Joseph Ertel, Peter Anton Paul, Johann Melchior Kaiser, Michael Bens, Joseph Sowalter, Wilhelm Pfister, Franz Hochweiss, Heinrich Neff, Nicolaus Junker, Katharina Mohr, Philipp Boni, Stephen Tobler (Dobbler), Peter Lederhose, Valentin Walter, George Friedrich Kohlmann, Michael Paul, Hans Adam Kummel, Matthias Wittmann, Michael Brunner, Franz Hergert, Nicolaus Mohr, Thomas Weber, Jacob Rein, Johann Conrad Rohleder, Nicolaus Schaefer, Wilhelm Heinrich Per, Kaspar Trautmann, Friedrich Pirn, Johannes Hoffmann, Balthasar Erler, Justus Gorf, johannes Schreiner, Johannes Pommer, Anna Margarethe Korger.

1798 HEADS of FAMILIES:  Reim, Rohleder, Walter, Glokar, Delf, Brungardt, Hoffmann, Boni, Kahlman, Braun, Dreiling, Benz, Auer, Paul, Wolf, Doppler, Wittmann, Lederhos, Schmidt, Pauly, Frank, Mahr, Glassmann, Pommer, Schreiner, Weber, Kreutzer, Kohlmann, Kimmel, Kapp, Schneider, Golai, Schoenberger, Springer, Eckhardt

1816/1834 HEADS of FAMILIES: Auer, Benz, Boni, Braun Doppler, Dreiling, Eckhardt, Frank, Glassmann, Gloker, Gref, Hoffmann, Kapp, Kohl, Kohler, Kohlmann, Kreutzer, Kummel, Lederhose, Mohr, Paul, Reim, Rockar, Rohleder, Schmidt, Schoenberger, Schreiner, Springer, Walter, Weber, Wittmann,

1850 HEADS of FAMILIES: Auer, Benz, Boni, Braun, Doppler, Dreiling, Eckhardt, Frank, Glassmann, Glick, Glocker, Gref, Hoffmann, Kapp, Kimmel, Kohlmann, Kreutzer, Lederhose, Milek, Mohr, Paul, Preuss, Reim, Rochel, Rohleder, Schmidt, Schoenberger, Schreiner, Spoetter, Springer, Walter, Weber, Wittmann.

1857 Index of Surnames from Census: Abt, Aselborn, Auer, Babrowski, Bahr, Bauer, Bauman, Baumgartner, Becker, Beckerer, Beier, Beisheimer, Beller, Benz, Berns, Bingraf, Bink, Bittel, Boni, Bos, Braun, Brungard, Dahlheimer, Dinker, Doppler, Doering, Dreiling, Eckhardt, Enslinger, Fischer, Frank, Fritz, Fuchs, Gaal, Glass, Glassmann, Glick, Glocker, Goertz, Goetz, Gref, Grohs, Gunther, Halle, Herber, Hergert, Herrhauser, Herrmann, Hoffmann, Hofstetter, Holzwarth, Husch, Kapp, Kessler, Kimmel, Kirchgessner, Klamm, Kleimann, Klein, Knaub, Kocker, Kohl, Kohlmann, Kolwek, Kreitzer, Kronfeld, Lattigan, Lederhos, Lemberger, Mahr, Matz, Maurer, Meier, Meller, Mertes, Milek, Mohr, Mukstadt, Mueller, Muti, Niederquell, Orth, Paul, Pfannenstiel, Pfenning, Prewoa, Regner, Reim, Riedel, Rocker, Rohleder, Rohr, Roth, Schaefer, Schamke, Schamle, Schepfler, Schmidt, Schoenberger, Schreiner, Schulof, Seifert, Spaetter, Springer, Staub, Stecklein, Stressler, There, Trescher, Wagner, Waldschmidt, Walter, Weber, Weisbecker, Werbach, Windholz, Wittmann, Wolf, Zimmerman.