They brought mail. The collective farm “Waldheim”. Photographer V. Girshovich. 1937
Photo: Gosarchive EAO
May 27, 1928
The village of Valdheim was founded, immigrants from the western regions of the country, put the first huts on the site of the future village. The village appeared, although in the forest wilderness, but not from scratch. And it did not immediately become Waldheim. Initially, at this place was the barracks with serving people, presumably, it was the Cossacks, they called the area a kirma. Then a resettlement point was organized, called Khudzinovka. The point received such a name by the name of the first chairman of Khudzinsky, unfortunately, the name and patronymic could not be clarified.
By the fall of 1928, the first houses were delivered. By June 1929 – 10 residential buildings and 20 outbuildings were built. The population of the village grew to 103 people. Two small artels worked in the village: tarred-jacket-sipidar and in the production of chips.
In October 1929, immigrants united in the Valdheim collective farm.
In 1930, it received the official name – Waldheim, translated from Yiddish “House in the Forest”. One of the first chairmen of the collective farm was Emmanuel Kazakevich – the future writer.
The threshing on the collective farm Valdheim. 1935. Photo: Gosarchive EAO
Valdheim's apiary of the collective farm 1938. Photo: Gosarchive EAO
Planting tomatoes on the fields of the Valdheim collective farm of the Birobidzha district. TSYB V., KRUNTSOVA V., Maslenkova T. 1939. Photo: Gosarchive EAO
Chairman of the Commune Valdheim School. 1929. Photo: Gosarchive EAO
Stakhanov El Eigel (migrant 1930). The collective farm Valdheim. Photo: Gosarchive EAO
Tractor of the Valdheim collective farm Maria Demchenko. 1943. Photo: Gosarchive EAO
The agitator of the collective farm “Waldheim”, the foreman of the vegetable growers Sh.M. Kochina holds a conversation about events at the front. March 1942 p. Waldheim .. Photo: Gosarchive EAO
In 1933, the first female brigade of vegetable growers, which was headed by the collective farmer Rybitskaya, was organized in Valdheim. Already in 1933, the collective farm became one of the best in the Birobidzha district. The collective farm was engaged in pig farming, gardening, beekeeping, a brick factory, a sewing workshop, a hinge artel worked. Of the public buildings, there was a club, a school, a nursery-garden, a bakery, mail, a hospital.
During the war years, like throughout the country, the collective farmers did everything in their power.
In 1950, the Valdheim collective farm was annexed by the collective farm “20 years of October” p. Poultry. The new household received a new name-the collective farm “33rd anniversary of the October Revolution”. Ten years later, two more collective farms will join Valdheim – the villages of Yellow Yar and Pronkino, and the enlarged collective farm will be called the Ilyich Testaments. He will last three decades.
In the 60s of the last century, Ilyich Testament was headed by Vladimir Israilevich Peller, who, during his lifetime, became a legendal man, a gentleman of three orders of Glory, who passed the whole war. The Waldheim collective farm in 1965 became the best in the Far Eastern zone. In 1971, the collective farm was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, in 1976 the collective farm “Testament Ilyich” was brought to the All -Russian board of honor. In 1970-1980 Waldheim was an ostentatious object, the standard of the collective farm village.
In Waldheim. In the hat, the school director of Schoollik Isaac Abramovich. Photo: Photo: Gosarchive EAO
The large collective farm village has now become the village of farmers and entrepreneurs. One of the first farmers of Waldheim was the last collective farm chairman Boris Ihilovich Rak, his two brothers Aron and Efim.
Today, Waldheim is a kind of the center of the Birobidzha district. Here are the district hospital, the district local history museum, the district library, the House of Culture, the Orthodox Church, the Secondary School, the orphanage for children of the disabilities, the children's music school, the kindergarten, the department of communications, the pharmacy and several stores.
May 27, 1952
The Bureau of the regional committee of the CPSU (B) and the regional executive committee adopted a resolution on the organization in the city of Birobidzhan, a technical school of agricultural mechanization with a period of training of 4 years and a contingent of a full set of 240 people.
May 27, 1958
The Bureau of the Regional Committee of the CPSU considered the issue of the work of the party organization of the collective farm “33rd anniversary of the October Revolution”. The bureau noted that the party organization, fulfilling the decisions of the party and the government on the further rise of agriculture, carried out a certain work to mobilize the collective farmers to solve the problems facing the collective farm. The cash income of the collective farm compared to 1953 increased 4.4 times. Attention was drawn to the need to increase the production of early vegetables, potatoes, and strengthen organizational, party and mass-political work.
May 27, 1971
The Bureau of the regional committee of the CPSU, having examined the results of the All -Union Communist Subbotnik, which was held on April 17, noted that he took place in the situation of a huge political and labor rise caused by the decisions of the XXIV Congress of the CPSU. Over 94 thousand people took part in the EAO in the subbotnik. The five -year plan was earned and transferred to the fund of the five -year period, and products were issued for 500 thousand rubles.
May 27, 2018
Square to border guards. Photo: Photo: Archive of IA EAMEDIA
In the square near the avenue of 60 years of the USSR, the memorial complex “Border guards-defenders of the Amur borders” was opened.
In the center of the square on the pedestal is the sculpture of the Soviet border guard, with a rifle behind his shoulder, he looks intently into the distance. At his feet stands an East European shepherd. Behind them is a tetrahedral border post with the number “63”, on the boulder a tablet with the text: “Border guards – defenders of the Amur borders.” The sculpture of the border guard was made in the PRC according to the sketch of the Birobidzhan artist Vladislav Tsap.
The sculpture of the Soviet border guard. Photo: Photo: Archive of IA EAMEDIA
The prototype of the monument was the veteran of the border service Fedor Mikhailovich Sumin, who served as a foreman in the Lenin border station for more than 40 years, awarded the medal “For Military Merit” and the Order of the Red Star. The monument embodied the images of border guards – the defenders of the Amur borders, who with honor fulfilled their duty to the homeland in different years of Soviet and new Russian history.
Tank IS-2, who took part in battles in the Far East. Photo: Photo: Archive of IA EAMEDIA
On the asphalt site, shops and tank IS-2 were installed around the perimeter (this copy took part in the battles in the Far East), a unique ship gun of the 1909 KAKE system, which has been in the fortified area on one of the Amur Islands for many years. Only five such guns were produced.
In the square you can also see two ZIS-3 guns, one of which took part in the hostilities against militaristic Japan.
The cannon is ZIS-3. Photo: Photo: Archive of IA EAMEDIA
The opening of the complex was dedicated to the centenary of the border guard of Russia. A new square was created and a complex for personal funds of border guards.
In May 2020, a cobblestone path was laid out in the square, along which six pylons were installed to the border guards – the heroes of the Soviet Union: Dotsenko Joseph Trofimovich, Strelnikov Ivan Ivanovich, Gushchin Vladimir Ivanovich, Terninom Peter Ivanovich, Vasherkin Ivan Vasilyevich, Kagykin Peter Petrovich.
Every year, by the day of the border guard, the border service veterans and border warriors ennoble the square: they paint equipment, benches, curbs, plant flowers on flower beds, wash the sculptural monument.
