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Prior to 1858, the area of what is today the Jewish Autonomous Oblast was ruled by a succession of Chinese imperial dynasties.In 1858, the northern bank of the Amur River, including the territory of today's Jewish Autonomous Oblast, was split away from the Qing Chinese territory of Manchuria and became incorporated into the Russian Empire pursuant to the Treaty of Aigun (1858) and the ...
Birobidzhan (Russian: Биробиджан, IPA: [bʲɪrəbʲɪˈdʐan]; Yiddish: ביראָבידזשאַן, IPA: [ˌbɪrɔbɪˈdʒan]), also spelt Birobijan (/ ˌ b ɪr ə b ɪ ˈ dʒ ɑː n / BIRR-ə-bih-JAHN), is a town and the administrative centre of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway, near the China–Russia border.
A further 9,215 lived in Saint-Petersburg with 851 in the surrounding Leningrad Oblast for a total of 10,066, or 12.00% of the entire Russian Jewish population; thus, Russia's two largest cities and surrounding areas hosted 51.61% of the total Russian Jewish population.
In 1934, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast was formed in the Russian Far East to show that, like other national groups in the Soviet Union, Russian Jews could receive a territory in which to pursue cultural autonomy in a socialist framework. The JAO's capital city was in Birobidzhan, and Yiddish was its official language.
This is a list of urban localities in the Russian Far East, ... City/town Federal subject Population (2015) 1: ... Jewish Autonomous Oblast: 8,811 72:
The Pale of Settlement [a] was a western region of the Russian Empire with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917 (de facto until 1915) in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, [1] was mostly forbidden.
City survived, but all Jews were exterminated. Šiaulėnai: שאַװלאַן Shavlan Town survived. Šiauliai: שאװל Shavl City survived, but most Jews were exterminated. Švenčionys: סװינציאן Svintzyan Town survived. Taujėnai: טאַװיאַן Tavian Town survived. Tauragė: טװריק Tavrik City was destroyed and most Jews were ...
He instead eventually approved a plan to settle Jews in part of the Russian Far East region of Khabarovsk Krai. [20] [21] This area along the Amur River had another big benefit for Stalin – moving the Jews out of the Pale of Settlement cities such as Kiev and Odessa, where he feared their large numbers. [20]