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, some 35 km east of

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. It has population of 191 people. Originally it was founded as Hutterdorf also known as Kucheva (

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: Kutschewa) as a

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village in 1856. Some 35 Hutterite families under the leadership of Georg Waldner (1794–1857) left

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and moved to Hutterdorf, where they had purchased 1,500 desiatinas of land to reestablish communal living. In 1874 all inhabitants, except two families who joined the

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, moved to the United States, where they resettled in Bon Homme Hutterite Colony in

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. John A. Hostetler: ''Hutterite Society'', Baltimore, MD, 1974, pages 107, 109.

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