Zaharchenko T. Social and cultural development of German and Mennonite colonies in Northern Priazovye in the middle ХІХ - beginning of XX century.

Objects are German and Mennonite colonies of Northern Priazovye. The aim is to study the place of Priazovye's Germans and Mennonites in social and cultural development of Russian Empire. A methods are chronological, rather - historical, historical-genetical. It reveals the reasons, consequences and features of migratory processes: immigrations of Germans and Mennonites to Russian Empire and emigration abroad because of the anti- German laws introduction. The conception about the great influence of German and Mennonite colonies on the social development in southern regions of Russian Empire during ХIХ - beg. XX is worked out. The sphere of use is the training courses.