Day in the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region
Photo: Regional Library
December 18, 1934
The formation of the Jewish Autonomous Region in the Far East caused a wide resonance not only in the Soviet Union, but also abroad. The reaction was mixed.
At three o'clock in the morning on December 18, 1934, OSOVIAKHIM planes unexpectedly circled over Birobidzhan. They flew in from Khabarovsk to create a festive atmosphere in connection with the congress starting that day and at the same time delivered 500 copies of the holiday issue of the Pacific Star newspaper (12+).
December 18, 1934
On December 18, 1934, at 19.00, the first regional congress of councils opened in Birobidzhan, in which a large delegation of the international Soviet community from various republics of the Union, organized by OZET, as well as delegates from friendly organizations in the USA and France participated.
323 delegates took part in the congress, including 160 Jews and 124 Russians. Participants in the congress were the first secretary of the Dalkray Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, L. I. Lavrentyev, and the chairman of the Dalk Regional Executive Committee, G. M. Kruzhov.
The congress received several hundred telegrams of welcome from labor collectives in many cities across the country. The congress delegates listened with great interest and attention to M. I. Kalinin’s welcoming telegram.
The congress discussed the report of the Organizing Committee of the regional executive committee and issues of economic and cultural development of the region. The Congress approved the report of the Organizing Committee and adopted an appeal to the working people of the region, calling on them to protect socialist property like the apple of their eye, to wage a determined struggle for the implementation of the tasks set by the party and the government, for the fulfillment of socialist obligations.
At the first plenum of the regional executive committee, a presidium was elected and heads of departments of the regional executive committee were approved.
I. I. Liberberg was elected chairman of the regional executive committee.
The congress had important historical significance for the region.
After the regional Congress of Soviets, the Jewish Autonomous Region received representation in the Council of Nationalities of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR and in the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the RSFRS.
December 18, 1934
Day in the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
In the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” (12+), the third page is devoted to the development plan for Birobidzhan. Articles and small notes talk about plans for construction work, shortcomings in the construction of new facilities, living conditions of city residents, etc. Among the authors of the articles are a design engineer, construction workers, and a health doctor.
December 18, 1935.
What the Birobidzhan Star wrote about on December 18, 1935.
“Sausage production begins” – this is the name of the note about the organization of a sausage shop and smokehouse by Food Industry. The material says that preparation of premises for a new workshop has begun. The “Wheel of Revolution” artel will repair equipment intended for cooking meat and sausage.
It is planned that at first the sausage shop will produce 150-200 kg of sausages, boiled and smoked sausage per day. In the future, smoking of ham and hams is planned.
By January 1, 1936, the Food Industry artel should produce the first products of the sausage shop.
On the same page there is a short article “Vinegar and wine from wild berries”. It talks about the fact that the Pishcheprom artel has mastered the production of wine from local raw materials – wild berries (blueberries, lingonberries, wild grapes, cranberries).
In 1935, the procurement office of the Regional Potrebsoyuz procured 12 tons of berries for the Regional Industrial Union.
On December 1, 1935, the Pishcheprom artel produced 7,500 liters of wine for sale. Every month the wine shop of the artel produces 2500 liters of wine.
Further, the article talks about the existing shortcomings in the work of a young wine production, such as: the lack of a basement for storing wine, insufficient mechanization of the wine shop, a shortage of bottles, so wine is sold only by the glass.
In 1936, the Regional Industrial Union plans to produce 100 tons of various berries. Vinegar production will be established from waste from wine production. There is also an opportunity to launch the production of cranberry extract acid.
December 18, 1976
Boris Starodubov received gratitude from the head of Tatarstan for the fact that, together with other masters, he decorated the capital of the republic with ice sculptures for the New Year.
