New building of the Khabarovsk Regional Cultural and Educational School in Birobidzhan, 1987.
Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
December 6, 1946
The Khabarovsk Regional Cultural and Educational College for training club and library workers was opened in Birobidzhan. A little later it was renamed a cultural and educational school, and then a college.
In 1994, the school of culture received the status of “Birobidzhan Regional College of Culture”.
Over the years of its history, the technical school was located in different premises. It began in one of the rooms of the local history museum, then in a two-story wooden building in the market area.
Festival of choral song and music in the city of Birobidzhan. Performance by the folk instruments orchestra of the cultural school. 1993. Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
Today the college is located in a five-story building, built according to a special project in 1987. Many classrooms are equipped for classes in special disciplines: dance halls, choir classrooms, folk instrument classrooms, library discipline classrooms.
Based on the decree of the government of the Jewish Autonomous Region dated October 14, 2014 No. 507-pp, the college was renamed the regional state professional educational budgetary institution “Birobidzhan College of Culture and Arts.”
College students take an active part in international, Far Eastern and regional festivals and competitions, winning grand prix there, showing that there is such a unique educational institution in our region.
December 6, 1934
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) on December 6, 1934 covered the decision of the plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the resolution of the party activist of the Birobidzhan organization, and also wrote about how workers, artisans, and collective farmers of the Jewish Autonomous Region responded to the decision of the Central Committee with a new production boom. For example, the director of the factory named after. Dimitrova comrade Katz said that it is necessary to pay special attention to the quality of products: “you need to put on the market not just anything, but what the consumer needs.”
Artel “Wheel of Revolution”. Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
“Wheel of Revolution” artel: “Let's remember well that we are faced with the task of fighting for good, cheap products: Our wheel must be strong, our buckets must not leak, etc. The open party meeting of the “Wheel of Revolution” artel welcomed the party's resolution and chose the troika to work out measures to improve and reduce the cost of products produced by the artel, paying special attention to consumer goods.”
Day in the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
In the article by I. Ganopolsky “At 9 o’clock in the morning…” a report on inspection of labor discipline in regional institutions was published. The article says that being late for work has already become the norm, and no one considers this a violation of labor discipline. “And the raid participants recorded delays: 25 minutes, 35, 45, an hour. Oblono, Regional Health, Oblfo, Regional Plan, bank, post office, Gorkomkhoz, Komzet, etc. Typists, secretaries, inspectors, accountants, bookkeepers, managers do not come to work on time – this is the result of the raid. This is how the working day began in institutions on December 4. People came at 10-11 o’clock in the afternoon and By two they were in a hurry to leave the institutions. It is necessary to declare a merciless fight against laxity and irresponsibility. Regional institutions must work efficiently. And we must remember that the main indicator of labor discipline is coming and leaving work.”
