Slavgorod is a town in Altai Krai, a place of compact residence of Russian Germans. It was founded in 1908 and received town status in 1914. The town’s name is associated with the resettlement policy of the early 20th century and an inspection trip by Chairman of the Council of Ministers P. A. Stolypin along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Having visited a large settlement on Lake Sikachi, which was being developed by settlers, he exclaimed: “A glorious town will be here!” Stolypin is considered the founder of the town. The town is located in the center of the Kulunda Steppe; the distance to Barnaul is 394 km.
In 1912, the magazine Niva published an overview article by G. Armatov, “To New Places,” in which the locality of Slavgorod was mentioned for the first time. Describing the hardships and privations of peasants who arrived in new places, G. Armatov reports that, for lack of housing, the settlers dug primitive dugouts for themselves, covered them сверху with straw or brushwood, and lived in them. Time passed, and from solitary miserable shacks log huts grew. Thus an entire village arose where until then there had been a deserted steppe. Very characteristic in this respect, the author of the article emphasizes, is the settlement of Slavgorod, which emerged in 1908.
In Slavgorod there were two churches that have been lost: the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, built in 1909, and a chapel commemorating the visit of P. A. Stolypin, built in 1910.