Tractor drivers of the Birobidzhan MTS report their readiness for sowing. 1943
Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
December 3, 1942
The Bureau of the Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Executive Committee of the Regional Council of Workers' Deputies considered the issue “On measures for the further development of subsidiary farms of industrial enterprises in the region.”
The adopted resolution noted that the number of subsidiary farms increased from 33 in 1941 to 68 in 1942, and the acreage increased by 173%. The Bureau has identified specific measures to expand crops, increase crop yields and increase livestock productivity.
Day in the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
December 3, 1942
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) covered on the front page official reports from the Soviet Information Bureau for December 1st. They reported that in the Stalingrad area and on the Central Front our troops were continuing their offensive in the same directions.
Here, on the first page of the newspaper issue, it is published note by Ivan Basov “Help to the families of front-line soldiers”. It talks about the session of the workers' deputies of Birofeld, which obliged business executives to provide assistance to the families of front-line soldiers in transporting fuel and feed for livestock, and providing work to those wives of front-line soldiers who, due to family circumstances, cannot go to collective farm work. It was proposed to open a workshop for repairing and sewing linen, shoes, and clothing for the families of front-line soldiers.
On the third page there is material by R. Mirskaya “People's Commissar's Awards were presented”which talks about awarding the best employees of the Birobidzhan MTS team. By order of the People's Commissar of Agriculture of the USSR comrade. Benediktov for excellent work in agriculture were awarded the badge “Excellence in Socialist Agriculture”: tractor brigade foreman E. I. Rak, tractor driver E. N. Mochulkin, blacksmith Comrade Kotlyar, repairwoman O. Molchanova, tractor brigade foreman Comrade Kolesnikov, mechanic Comrade Prokopchuk, trailer operator V. Kovyazin.
Published on the same page feuilleton “There will be no bathhouse today”. It comically ridicules the operation of the city bathhouse. Below the text of the feuilleton are comments and facts about the real, extremely poorly managed work of this institution, in which the management believes that there is a war going on, and that now, they say, is not the time. The article ends with an appeal from citizens to the city leadership with a request to take measures to improve consumer services for the population, citing the Pravda editorial “Caring for the everyday needs of workers.”
December 3, 1975
On this day, the Birobidzhan Star published an article by B. Nikitin, “The largest in the region.” It tells about the opening of the Birobidzhan feed mill. At that time, it was the largest highly mechanized enterprise in the region and region for the production of compound feed for public livestock farming. Its design capacity was 300 tons of products per day. The plant was designed for the production of loose and granulated feed. It was planned to produce such feed for the first time in the Far East.
According to the author of the article, chief engineer of the feed mill B. Nikitin, most of the technological processes at the enterprise are mechanized.
“A control panel is installed in the production building, with the help of which one operator will control and regulate all technological processes. There are another 131 workers on staff, but they will also deal mainly with buttons. For comparison, I note that without automation and mechanization, the plant would require more than 1,000 service personnel.
During the design, high requirements for the quality of products were taken into account. At our factory, we use the most accurate dosing of components using program-controlled electronics. Some of the people who will service the plant have already completed the necessary training.
A high production culture is combined at the plant with good living conditions.
For workers and employees, almost next to the plant, in the ninth microdistrict of Birobidzhan, construction has begun on a 98-apartment building and a hostel for small families with 216 beds.”
