Oktyabrskaya street Birobidzhan
Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
January 14, 1955
By decision of the Birobidzhan City Executive Committee dated January 14, 1955 No. 13, the lane in the village of Vostochny was given the name Detsky, and a new street in the village of Fibrolit behind Ikura was named after Radishchev.
Based on the same decision, a new street in the village of Kirpichiki was given the name Donetskaya, a lane in the area of Sovetskaya Street was given the name Kurilsky, a lane in the village of Shveiny behind Ikura was given the name Moldavsky, a lane in the village of Shveiny behind Ikura was given the name Ussuriysky, a new street in the village of Birobidzhan-2 station was named after Khmelnitsky and another new street in the area of Sovetskaya Street was given the name Yanvarskaya.
January 14, 1914
On this day, David Abramovich Shurits, Honorary Citizen of Birobidzhan, was born.
David Abramovich Shurits. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
David Abramovich was born in the city of Volkovysk, Grodno region of Belarus, into a working-class family. At the age of 18 he graduated from the school of the communist movement of the Komsomol Central Committee in Odessa. After working for a year as a senior pioneer leader in Vitebsk, I heard that Komsomol members were being sent to the Far East, and decided to go. This region then seemed like the end of the world, because the train took 12 days to get to Khabarovsk.
David Shurits was assigned to Birobidzhan, then still a workers' village.
In 1933 he came to school No. 2 and began working as a senior pioneer leader. The first gathering of the squad was held at the pioneer fire under the hill on the right bank of the Bira.
Later he was assigned to organize a pioneer squad at school No. 1.
In 1934, with the help of the OSOAVIAKHIM organization and the efforts of D. A. Shurits, a gliding circle was created. The guys had a real glider, it was kept near the house of one student, on the island where the village is now located. Guerrilla. Some members of the circle later became aviators and participated in the Great Patriotic War.
Thanks to his initiative, a football team appeared at the school.
In the summer of 1935, D. A. Shurits organized the first urban pioneer camp in the village of Valdgeim.
In 1936, pioneers from Birobidzhan took first place in the competition among school teams of the RSFSR in small-caliber rifle shooting (12+).
During the war, David Abramovich Shuritz was drafted into the army. He fought in the east and was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War, 2nd degree, the medal “For Victory over Japan” and other awards.
After the war he returned to the regional center.
Over the years, David Abramovich worked as the head of the pioneer department at the regional Komsomol committee, taught military affairs and physical education at schools No. 1, 2, 9. He was engaged in tourism – he took schoolchildren on hikes. He devoted a lot of effort to raising physically healthy, cultured and educated people who love their Motherland, their land.
January 14, 1992
On January 14, 1992, the Taekwon-Do Federation of the WTF EAO was registered, now the public organization “Taekwondo Federation of the WTF EAO”.
January 14, 1994
By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of January 14, 1994, the title of Honored Transport Worker of the Russian Federation was awarded to:
- Gretsky Fedor Andreevich – road master of the Khabarovsk distance of the Far Eastern Railway,
- Gorodov Vladimir Grigorievich – train compiler Art. Volochaevka Far Eastern Railway,
- Petrechko Ivan Ivanovich – electric locomotive driver of the Obluchensky locomotive depot of the Far Eastern Railway.
