1858: Chervin/Konoval
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| Nadezhnaya Revision List 1858: Chervin/Konoval |
Konoval family from 1875 |
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This line emigrated from Svir (near Vilna) to Agricultural Colony #13 near Mariupol, known as Nadezhnaya (modern form Nadezhnoye, also Nadiyne), and also as "Der Vilner" or "Vilensky" because of the origin of the colonists.
These colonies played an important part in Tsarist policy toward Jews of the Pale of Settlement. The introductory paragraphs of the biography of Vladimir Konovalov explains this in some detail, at https://evkol.ucoz.com/konovalov.htm (in Russian; we attach a machine translation in English).
At the beginning of our story the Konoval family is in Svir, near Vilna, and the "orphan" Aryeh Konoval (the mother was still living, in 1850) is adopted by his uncle Kaufman Chervin. They are in Svir in the census of 1850, and in the Nadezhnaya colony in the census of 1853, with the Chervins and Konovals in one household in the colony.
A little later the Konovals adopted the form Konovalov and have kept it since. In particular Efroim used both forms.
It is reported that Aryeh had 24 living descendants in the colony in 1890. This information comes from a book by Uleinikov which Pavel Bernshtam has put online at http://bernshtam.name/colony/Uleinikov/ Entry #29 on page 131 gives the details for the Konovalov family.
The relevant entry reads as follows.
| Konovalov, Ari-Leib Kofmanovich |
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| The Konovalov family is noted for being model farmers. All the sons are married. The eldest son has three sons, all working. The second has three young daughters. The third, who served in the military, has one young son. The old man and his two sons live together; one son and the widow of the deceased son with her children (three sons and five daughters) live in separate houses. |
We include this below according to our understanding of the passage.
Sometime before 1890 the name became Konovalov rather than Konoval. So we use that for the succeeding generations.
Descendants of Efroim (Tashkent and Israel)
This becomes more complicated. Now we make more use of the biography of Vladimir Konstantinovich Konovalov (born Volf Kalmanovich Konovalov). A short version is given by Reuven Besitskii (Feb. 2010) ( "A Sailor from the Nadezhnaya Colony" (Russian)), (retrieved from archive.org) and a fuller version, with some variation in details, is given by Yakov Pasik ( Legendary submariner Vladimir (Wulf) Konovalov (Russian)). A variant of Besitskii's article appeared in March 2010 in "Evreiski Motivi" No. 838, p. 44.
They state that Vladimir's father Kalman was a grandson of Aryeh (Ari-Leib) Konovalov and they give Uleinikov's information about the family. They are vague about the details, but Besitskii repeats that the eldest son had three living sons, just before mentioning the grandson. The implication is that he believed that one of these three sons was Kalman's father. From Uleinikov, the only other candidate would be among the sons of the widow, whom Besitskii does not mention.
In addition, a family tree (mostly private) at geni.com,
managed by Eugen Wladimir Baraniskin,
gives
information about the descendants of Kalman and one brother,
Moisei Shneer.
We first placed these among the children of Efroim.
Information from Boris Konovalov places them as children
of Samu'il (as mentioned by Efim).
The family chart prepared by the Vinniks for A1 does not include Vladimir (Vulf), the most famous family member.
Grigori Tsygutkin lists all the pre-war households at Nadezhnoye (unfortunately without patronymics). For houses #30, 31 he gives two Konovalov heads of households not mentioned elsewhere.
The patronymic Semyen occurs in the Omsk evacuation cards (for Aleksandr). There is even a Semyon Isakovich evacuated to Novosibirsk but his residence was Kiev and profession metalworker. Also a Mikhail Isakovich b. 1938 was evacuated with his mother Roza b. 1912 from Kharkov to Novosibirsk.
Key information—not the easiest to interpret in detail—is found on evacuation cards referring to evacuation from Nadezhnaya Agricultural Colony to the east. We have #1285-1290 with #1288 missing (possibly carrying another surname; we can search only by surname). This gives the following. All entries labeled List 21, p. 25, and with the entry numbers given below.
Also Fanya Konovalov, evacuated from Kamenets with son Mosya to Tashkent.
Strictly speaking, this is Book 2 of Wild Field. For that volume, we have the Russian and a good machine translation into English. It contains a great deal of information about the development of the colony from its earliest beginnings in 1824 to the murder of the last descendants of the original settlers by the Nazis.
The memoir mentions two points of particular interest.
A chart received by Mikhail Konovalov in 1995 gives data concerning certain Konovalov lineages since 1875 that should correspond to the Nadezhnaya lines, though the details are still being worked out. This chart appears to reflect the knowledge of a member of the Vinnik family.
Eugen Baraniskin manages the tree at geni.com which
begins with brothers
Moisei Shne'er and Kalman (Konstantin) Konovalov.
He reported:
"I contacted Sofia Chervina (Gorelik). This is
what she told me:"
My grandparents, Avrom Shmul and Doba Chervin. My grandfather predicted the weather by the stars. They were killed by the Germans when they arrived in Nadezhnoye. There's a monument near Nadezhnoye with all the names of those killed by the Germans. They had two sons—the elder, Yosef, and the younger, Tsemakh. Yosef had a son, Isaac, and a grandson, Ilya. Tsemakh had a daughter, Sophia (me).
The Svirsky lines originate in Svir. Along with the Chervins, Konovalovs, and other families associated with Svir, they are active participants in the Nadezhnoye colony.
As it would be artificial to separate these lines geographically, we collect our information on the Svirskys in an overview page. These concern only the Svirskys who appear to have some connection either to the Chervin line that remained around Vilna, or the Chervin and Konovalov lines descended from founders of the Nadezhnoye colony.
There are additional records relating to evacuation from Zaporozhye to Omsk. While it is possible that these families came from Nadezhnaya Colony, or are related to families there, there is no evidence one way or another. According to these records, which date from February 1942, there were four families that left at three different times. Dates are not given but the sequence is numbered, and the family numbers are 1587, 7302/7304, 9333.
More details may be found on the overview page.
American Konovals and Konovalovs are listed at
https://sortedbyname/letter_k/konoval.html and
https://sortedbyname/letter_k/konovalov.html.
Here are the lists as of January 2026:
Konoval;
Konovalov.
This includes some immigrants born in the 19th century.
Note:
"Uleinikov" is a pen name of Lev Moiseevich Binshtok (1836-1904).
2026