Nikolai Ivanovich Berezny
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January 25, 1931
On this day, Nikolai Ivanovich Berezny, Honorary Citizen of the city of Birobidzhan, Honored Cultural Worker of the RSFSR, was born.
His childhood and youth passed in the village. Novovoskresenovka, Amur Region, where Nikolai graduated from school and began his career as the head of a rural library and club.
In 1949, he was sent to study in the city of Birobidzhan at the Khabarovsk Regional Cultural and Educational School. In 1952 N.I. Berezny successfully graduated from the cultural and educational school and was called up to serve in the navy in Vladivostok. In 1956, Nikolai Ivanovich was demobilized from the army and returned to his native village as a teacher of singing, drawing, and physical education, where he worked for six years. In 1961, Nikolai Ivanovich successfully graduated from the choral department of the Institute of Culture in Ulan-Ude.
In 1962, he was invited to work as a regional radio announcer in Birobidzhan, where he worked for 44 years. Nikolai Ivanovich Berezny is a master of the highest class; his announcer skills were manifested in his ability to conduct programs of various genres. Nikolai Ivanovich is an interesting and versatile personality. He is interested in photography, music, and painting. Takes part in photo exhibitions and accompanies musical instruments at amateur art competitions. Speaker Berezny has “golden” hands. He tunes musical instruments, repairs watches, and any household appliances.
Having retired, N.I. Berezny is engaged in social work. Actively works in the city council of veterans, war and labor pensioners. Takes part in socially significant city and regional holidays and events, reciting classics by heart at such events. He sings beautifully and accompanies on the accordion.
Nikolai Ivanovich Berezny Awarded a Certificate of Honor from the Governor of the Jewish Autonomous Region (2000), Gratitude from the Governor of the Jewish Autonomous Region (2006).
January 25, 1932
On this day, Lev Semyonovich Kardashenko, Honorary Citizen of the city of Birobidzhan, was born.
Lev Semyonovich Kardashenko. Photo: Photo: Heritage EAO
Lev Semyonovich comes from Krasnogorsk, Moscow region. In 1948, he entered a local two-year vocational school and chose the profession of carpenter.
In 1950, the family moved to the Jewish Autonomous Region. We settled in Birakan. And soon Lev Semenovich was called up to serve in the army. Resigned to the reserve in 1955.
After the army he went to work at the Birobidzhan metal products plant. In 1962, he got a job as a carpenter at the Birobidzhanstroy trust, where he worked for 40 years.
Since 1969, Lev Semenovich led a team of carpenters, which they tried to direct to the most difficult areas, because they knew that the foreman and his charges would not let them down.
Lev Semenovich paid great attention to the education of youth. By his example, he instilled in his workers professionalism and a responsible approach to their assigned work. And having already retired, he headed the veterans council of Birobidzhanstroy OJSC, was a member of the city Council of Labor Veterans, and the curator of the trust museum. L. S. Kardashenko gladly hosted numerous excursions of townspeople and introduced them to the museum exhibits. He often visited schools and other educational institutions, where he told the children about the affairs of the older generation who, in spite of difficulties, built a modern city on Bir.
For his conscientious work, Lev Semenovich was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labor in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V.I. Lenin”, the Order of the Badge of Honor, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, he was awarded the title “Honored Builder of the RSFSR”, he was awarded the medal “Veteran of Labor”. No less dear to him is the title “Winner of Socialist Competition,” awarded three times in the seventies.
In 2002 he was awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Birobidzhan”.
In May 2021, Lev Semyonovich Kardashenko passed away.
January 25, 1938
Road Birobidzhan – Blyukherovo (Leninskoye). Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
Based on the decision of the Presidium of the Regional Executive Committee of the JAO “On the transfer of the village of Stepanovo to the service of the Blyukherovsky district”, the Stepanovsky Village Council was separated from the suburban zone of the city of Birobidzhan and included in the Blyukherovsky district (Leninsky district).
In the former Cossack village of Stepanovo in 1869, more than 330 people lived – slightly less than in the main village of Mikhailo-Semyonovskaya.
But in the thirties, Stepanovo began to fade away, suffering from mass repressions and dispossession. The list of repressed and dispossessed residents of this village contains more than a hundred names. In 1939, there were only fourteen households left in Stepanovo – almost seven times less than there were in the year the Jewish Autonomous Region was founded. But the village lasted until 1984, then farmers from neighboring Voskresenovka tried to revive it – at least as a farm, but this idea, alas, was not crowned with success.
Today the village of Stepanovo, named in memory of the famous explorer and warrior Onufriy Stepanov, is no longer on the maps of the Leninsky district of the Jewish Autonomous Region, but it will forever remain in the history of our region.
January 25, 1939
A resolution of the presidium of the executive committee “On the state of political education work in the region” was adopted with specific measures to improve the work of libraries. This fact is reflected in the monograph of the candidate of historical sciences, director of the Birobidzhan Regional Universal Scientific Library named after. Sholom Aleichem O.P. Zhuravleva “History of book publishing in the Jewish Autonomous Region (late 1920s – 1960s)” (0+).
Day in the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
“…The main reason hindering the development of the autonomy’s library network was the weak material and technical base of libraries, “in fact, only a small number of libraries had premises, library collections and personnel at that time.” For a long time, the premises of district and rural libraries did not correspond to their purpose, which interfered with the quality of service to readers. Libraries did not have the opportunity to properly house book collections, not to mention the need to have reading rooms in them. The construction of library premises was urgently required…”
January 25, 1939
The resolution of the Presidium of the Executive Committee dated January 25, 1939 described specific measures to improve the work of libraries.
“…Village councils and district executive committees were categorically prohibited from occupying the premises of cultural and educational institutions for other purposes. And this practice existed in all districts of the region. Executive bodies were obliged to provide libraries with premises, and library workers with apartments. Many organizations in Birobidzhan provided patronage assistance to rural political and educational institutions: they brought firewood, books, furniture, and made repairs…”
January 25, 1967
A meeting of the activists of the regional and Birobidzhan city party organizations was held, where the results of the December (1966) Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee were discussed.
The report was made by A.P., member of the CPSU Central Committee, first secretary of the Khabarovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU. Shitikov. The meeting of activists approved the results of the December Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, the decisions adopted by the Plenum, the political line and practical activities of the Central Committee aimed at implementing the course developed by the XXIII Party Congress in the field of domestic and foreign policy and the world communist movement.
The meeting of party activists instructed the regional, city, and district party committees to organize a discussion of the decisions of the December (1966) Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee at meetings in primary party organizations. The activist meeting addressed all workers of the region, all communists with an appeal: through selfless labor to further strengthen and increase the economic and defense power of our socialist Motherland.
January 25, 1973
The Bureau of the Regional Party Committee approved measures for widespread propaganda and explanation among the workers of the region of documents and materials of the ceremonial meeting of the CPSU Central Committee, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the formation of the USSR, and for the implementation of the Resolution of the CPSU Central Committee, the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions and the Komsomol Central Committee of January 3, 1973 “On the development of the All-Union Socialist Competition of Industry, Construction and Transport Workers for early implementation of the national economic plan for 1973.”
January 25, 1989
Based on the order of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, the Birobidzhan State Pedagogical Institute was created.
In 2005, due to the growing needs of the Jewish Autonomous Region for highly qualified personnel in the fields of economics, management, social sphere, technical and engineering personnel, the Birobidzhan State Pedagogical Institute was transformed into the Far Eastern State Social and Humanitarian Academy.
The first rector of the basic university of the Jewish Autonomous Region Anatoly Surnin. Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
In 2011, the Far Eastern State Social and Humanitarian Academy, the Birobidzhan Industrial and Humanitarian College and the Birobidzhan Mechanical and Technological College of Light Industry were reorganized in the form of joining the college and technical school as structural divisions to the academy. In the same year, by order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the university was renamed into the Amur State University named after Sholom Aleichem.
DVGSGA. Photo: Photo: EAOMedia news agency archive
Today, the Amur State University named after Sholom Aleichem is the only multidisciplinary university in the Jewish Autonomous Region that provides multi-level training in higher professional education programs and postgraduate education in graduate school. The university also implements programs of additional professional education: advanced training and professional retraining.
The structure of the university also includes research and teaching and methodological centers, laboratories, design bureaus, creative studios and clubs. A lyceum operates on the basis of the university.
