Appendix H: A List of  nearby German Colonies and Ukrainian Towns

where Jews resided

The Jewish urban communities in Yekaterinoslav Guberniya were established
on a very small scale alongside the colonies. As time passed and many
families found themselves unsuited to rural life, the urban communities
were boosted by many who dropped out of the colonies. The major
communities, aside from Yekaterinoslav the capital, included Alexandrovsk
(Zaparozhe), Pavlograd, Orekhov, Tokmak, Melitopol, Berdyansk, Mariupol and
others.

In effect the original colonists drew in their wake significant numbers of
their hometown relatives or neighbors from Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus
who constituted the majority in the developing urban communities in
Yekaterinoslav.

Chaim Freedman