Regional library
Photo: Regional Library
January 10, 1977
The materials of the Birobidzhan State Archive contain information that, on the basis of the order of the regional executive committee of the Jewish Autonomous Region dated January 10, 1977, No. 63, the first stage of a complex of buildings of a regional psychiatric hospital with 200 beds with a dispensary department and an economic building was put into operation in the city of Birobidzhan.
The regional psychiatric hospital occupies a huge area on the outskirts of the city, which includes many buildings. In 1978, a new department was opened in the hospital for patients with neuroses.
In 2014, thanks to participation in the federal program, the hospital was equipped with modern therapeutic and diagnostic equipment that allows diagnosing organic and functional disorders of the central nervous system.
In 2017, the hospital added palliative beds for hopelessly ill patients.
The psychiatric hospital is a large medical institution, second only to the regional hospital in terms of the number of beds.
Psychiatric hospital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Photo: Photo: EAOMedia news agency archive
January 10, 1936
Joseph Brener’s book “The Country of Birobidzhan” (0+) contains information that on January 10, 1936, at a ceremonial meeting of the Birobidzhan City Council dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mendele Moikher-Sforim, on the initiative of I. Liberberg, it was decided to name the library after him.
“As you know, in 1940, after the construction of a new regional library building, it was named after Sholom Aleichem. No official explanation for this event has yet been found in the archives. It can be assumed that the anniversary celebrations dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of Sholom Aleichem in 1939 prompted the authorities to make this decision. But it is quite possible that the decisions made by the “enemy of the people” I. Liberberg were subject to revision, and therefore the name of the library was changed.”
January 10, 1939
Day in the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) On January 10, 1939, in Valery Khramtsov's article “The workers' village of Londoko” wrote about how the village of Londoko-zavod was built and developed, about the best people of the plant. The article talks about the people who built the plant and who grew up with it. A school with 500 seats was built in the village. In 1933, several two-story houses were built for the factory workers. Since that time, cultural construction has also developed; the village had a club with a sound film installation, a hospital, an outpatient clinic, a nursery, and a radio center:
“The geologists were followed by designers, then builders of all specialties, and in 1930, at the foot of one of the large hills, in a modest but solemn atmosphere, the foundation of a socialist enterprise was laid – a lime plant, designed to produce 28 thousand tons of lime per year…
A team of immigrants from Palestine laying the concrete foundation of the Londokovsky plant in 1932. Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
In the remote taiga, surrounded by hills, a powerful plant, equipped with first-class equipment, began to grow. One after another, buildings and lime kilns with tall chimneys were erected. The taiga resounded with the noise of construction, the clink of metal, the explosions of the untouched bowels of the earth filled with the most valuable limestone…
Together with the plant, people built their own homes, shops, cultural institutions…
Next to the plant, a large mine was wedged into the mountain, providing the plant with raw materials. Directly from the mine, limestone enters the workshops and, after a series of complex production processes, goes to warehouses as a finished product, is loaded into wagons and transported to all cities, factories and construction sites in the region…
Miner Belov, Stakhanovist of the Londokovsky plant. Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR dated December 4, 1938, the village of the Londokovsky lime plant was classified as a workers' village. This resolution once again speaks of the concern shown by the party and government for the development of the Soviet Far East and for the further economic strengthening of the Jewish Autonomous Region.”
