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The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) [a] is a federal subject of Russia in the far east of the country, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast in Russia and Heilongjiang province in China. [13] Its administrative center is the town of Birobidzhan. The JAO was designated by a Soviet official decree in 1928, and officially established in 1934.
The history of the Jews in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO), Russia, began with the early settlements of 1928. Yiddish and Russian are the two official languages of the JAO. [1] According to Peter Matthiessen in The Birds of Heaven, p20-21, “According to local memory, thousands of Jews from Ukraine and elsewhere were transported here during ...
Birobidzhan was planned by the Swiss architect Hannes Meyer, and established in 1931. It became the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in 1934, and town status was granted to it in 1937. [2] The 36,000 km 2 of Birobidzhan were approved by the Politburo on March 28, 1928. [15] After the Bolshevik revolution, the Soviet Union ...
Jewish leaders of the JAO. Alexander Vinnikov - mayor of Birobizhan. Valery Solomonovich Gurevich - Vice-Chairman of the JAO. Lev Toitman - Chairman for Birobidzhan's 4,500 member Jewish Community (Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS) Mordechai Scheiner - Chief Rabbi of JAO. Boris "Dov" Kaufman - leader of Beit T'shuva.
Obluchye (Russian: Облу́чье, Yiddish: אָבלוטשיע, romanized: oblutshye) is a town and the administrative center of Obluchensky District in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Khingan River, 159 kilometers (99 mi) west of Birobidzhan, the administrative center of the autonomous oblast. Population: 7,959 (2021 ...
The Governor of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast ( Russian: Губернатор Еврейской автономной области) is the head of executive branch for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, considered as Prime Minister of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. The office of Governor is an elected position, for which elected officials serve four ...
Jewish communities in Russia. Autonomous oblasts of Russia. Autonomous oblasts of the Soviet Union. Far Eastern Federal District. Russian Far East. Jews and Judaism in Siberia. Jewish self-rule. Jewish settlement schemes in the Soviet Union. Regions of the Subarctic.
Birobidzhansky District (Russian: Биробиджа́нский райо́н, Yiddish: ביראָבידזשאַן סקי דיסטריקט) is an administrative and municipal district , one of the five in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the autonomous oblast.