Day in the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region
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October 12, 1936
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) of 1936, October 12, in the section “Around the City and Region,” wrote about the construction of the Palace of Labor in Birobidzhan: “The regional trade council ordered the design office to design a Palace of Labor in Birobidzhan, for the construction of which the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions allocated 650 thousand rubles.
The palace will house all regional trade union committees, the regional trade council, and a large conference hall. The building will be stone, three-story.
The architect Comrade Savinkov, working on the project of the Palace of Labor, took upon himself to complete the project by the second regional Congress of Soviets.”
The same section talks about about the conference in honor of the third anniversary of the children's librarywhich took place in the apartment of one of the first readers of the children's library, Jewish school student Malinovskaya.
October 12, 1946
What did the Birobidzhan Star newspaper write about on October 12, 1946?
The section “Across Our Region” talks about an elite cancer-resistant potato variety that is transferred by an experimental agricultural station to collective farms in the region.
Day in the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
It is also written that artist I. D. Tsimerinov came to Birobidzhan for a long timerepeated participant of All-Union exhibitions. In Birobidzhan, the artist intended to paint several paintings about the construction and development of the Jewish Autonomous Region.
The newspaper informs its readers that The Birobidzhan haberdashery factory mastered and began producing a new type of product – bone buttonsas the newspaper writes: “Previously, such buttons were not produced by the factory. Buttons are made from bones and horns.”
In the same issue, the newspaper shared an interesting fact with readers. A very rare oak was cut down in one of the forest areas in the region: “On the second forest plot of the Birobidzhan Fuel Trust, a rare specimen of oak was recently cut down. The height of the tree reached 22 meters, the diameter was 1 meter 20 centimeters. The age of the oak is determined to be three hundred years. Such specimens are very rare.”
