Agriculture firm, village church thrive together in Siberia

Jul 2, 2018 by and

Jakob Dirksen with his wife, Nelli, and daughter Vereina at their home in Apollonovka, Russia. The village was originally named Waldheim, after a Mennonite colony in Ukraine. — Reinhard Assmann

GVARDEYSK, Russia — An economic miracle is underway in a western Siberian village founded in 1911 by Mennonite settlers from Ukraine. Two men around the age of 40, Jakob Dirksen and David Epp, have created a...

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