Commander-in-Chief of the People's Revolutionary Army Blucher, members of the Military Council, Postyshev, Melnikov, Seryshev are developing a plan for the assault on Volochaevka
Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
February 5, 1922
The 2nd Regiment of the Chita Brigade, with the support of the 3rd Battery, went on the offensive on Olgokhta and, having knocked out the enemy (Kappelevites), occupied it. With selfless work in 30-degree frost, sappers and the railway company by the end of the day on February 5 restored all the bridges west of the Olgokhta station and thereby made it possible for armored train No. 8 to move to the station. But the White Army did not give up and the next day tried to return the patrol back.
February 5 fighting near Olgokhta. Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
P. Fartushnov, an NRA fighter, recalled: “… the Whites again tried to occupy Olgokhta, but their adventure was not crowned with success. Two officer regiments – the flower and support of the White Guards – lost more than half of their strength on the approaches to Olgokhta.”
From the memoirs of participants in the Civil War, it is known that in the battles of Olgokhta and Vladimirovka only the 6th regiment of the NRA, consisting of 400 people, lost a significant number of soldiers.
A group of civil war veterans of the Smidovichi district at the memorial sign erected in honor of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution in the village. Smidovich. 1978 Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
Of the five battles that the NRA fought in front of Volochaevka, four were won. The NRA lost the January battles near Olgokhta, and took revenge in February. It is here that V.K. Blucher admitted that for the first time the soldiers felt a regular army, and only now was it time to advance on Volochaevka.
February 5, 1933
February 5 conference of migrants. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
In the article by A. Kirzhnits “This is only possible in the Soviet Union” it is written that the first day of the conference of foreign migrants (6+) has passed. Reports and debates at this conference were conducted in Yiddish.
The conference was opened by the secretary of the district committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Yankel Levin, with a large political report on the first five-year plan. The last part of the report by comrade. Levin dedicated to the builders of Biro-Bidzhan. He described the most important achievements of the area. Foreign settlers are building, and will continue to build, a socialist Biro-Bidjan.
At this conference, the head of affairs of foreign migrants, Comrade. Stolov, he spoke about the participation of foreign settlers in the construction of the socialist Biro-Bidzhan. Stolov spoke about the great successes in Biro-Bidzhan and the very large contribution of foreign settlers to this. They have concrete, real results:
“Ikor-Sotsgorodok” was previously unknown to anyone. A city with large socialist construction is already being planned. Agriculture and fish procurement in the commune increased significantly. A school furniture factory has been built and is already partially operational. A fiberboard plant was built in the taiga and dense bush. Apartments for workers and work buildings have already been built.
It’s the same in Birobidzhan at the sawmill and in the construction office, at the rafting of timber, in Londoko at the extraction and burning of lime, granaries and repair of tractors, harvesting in furniture workshops that are being converted into a factory – everywhere you can see foreign settlers in the forefront, some of them among the best and strongest. For the most part, foreign migrants, apparently, have already acclimatized and are clearly justifying themselves.
General view of a mechanical conveyor at the Detal factory. Birobidzhan. 1930s. Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
In the series “Library of the Birobidzhan Jewish Religious Community “Freud” – “They were the first” (6+) in the chapter “Be more actively involved in socialist construction” for the conference of foreign migrants, a greeting from the conference to Comrade Stalin is posted: “To the leader of the world proletariat, the best and most devoted student of Lenin, Comrade Stalin – from the Birobidzhan conference of immigrants from capitalist countries – ardent greetings.
We promise, together with the entire proletariat of the Soviet Union and under your strict leadership, to fight, despite all difficulties, for socialist construction in the country and for the construction of socialist Birobidzhan.”
February 5, 1966
The XVII regional party conference took place. At the conference it was noted that during the reporting period, organizational and political work intensified, the labor and political activity of communists and all workers in the development of the economy and culture of the region increased. Collectives of industrial enterprises completed the seven-year plan ahead of schedule, the volume of industrial production increased by 88%, and the state delivered 12.6 million rubles in excess of the planned output. Agricultural workers in the region increased the production and sale of agricultural products to the state. In 1965, compared to 1963, grain production increased by 55%, soybean production by 15%, potatoes by two times, vegetables by 62%, and milk by 33%.
The conference outlined ways to further improve organizational, ideological and political work, and determined the main directions for the development of the productive forces, economy and culture of the region.
At the organizational plenum, G.E. was elected first secretary of the regional party committee. Podgaev.
February 5, 1971
The Dalselmash plant sent a self-propelled grain harvester “Sibiryak” to the international fair in Budapest. This large agricultural engineering plant grew up on the site of a small transport factory. The Sibiryak grain harvester has great maneuverability and has proven itself when working on waterlogged soils. It was appreciated not only in the Far East, but also in other regions of our country; they were readily bought in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Cuba, Italy, in the countries of the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
