
Listening to the radio on the Royta Sopka collective farm
Photo: Heritage JAO
February 6, 1891
Aizik Izrailevich Zaretsky. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
On this day, Aizik Izrailevich Zaretsky, a philologist and linguist, was born in Pinsk (Belarus). In 1913–17 Aizik Izrailevich studied at the Faculty of Mathematics of Yuryev (now Tartu) University. In the 1920s, as a member of the Moscow and Kharkov philological commissions, he actively participated in the spelling reform of the Yiddish language. In 1926, a Jewish (pedagogical) department was opened at the 2nd Moscow State University, and Zaretsky began teaching Yiddish there. After the reform of 1930, Moscow State University was disbanded, and Evlitlo (Jewish literary and linguistic department) became part of the literary department of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. Bubnova.
In 1936, Zaretsky Aizik Izrailevich was a member of the commission for organizing a conference on the Jewish language in Birobidzhan.
During the Great Patriotic War, Zaretsky lived and worked in Stalinabad (now Dushanbe, Tajikistan). Zaretsky A.I. died. in Kursk on July 27, 1956.
February 6, 1928
In the book by David Vayserman “How it Was” (0+) there is information that on this day the OZET Presidium decided to assign the Biro-Bidzhan region to KOMZET and assign immediate work to resettle Jews there. This resolution stated the following:
“We welcome KOMZET’s choice of the Far Eastern region for its activities, which is in dire need of settlement and an influx of organized labor, human energy and knowledge from the depths of the Union. Working Jews will find in the natural resources of the region a wide field for useful and fruitful activity, and will meet fraternal and friendly support among the local population.”
February 6, 1935
In January 1935, residents of Birobidzhan, then still a working-class village, for the first time heard from a loudspeaker the solemn and jubilant: “Es redt Birobidzhan! Birobidzhan speaks! Zay de gris, tayere haverim!” On Oktyabrskaya Street, in the first and only then two-story House of Communications, in a small room stood the artist of the Birobidzhan State Jewish Theater Chaim Gelfand and in an excited voice conducted the first radio broadcast. It only lasted half an hour. From February 6, 1935, radio broadcasts became regular, and a year later – daily. During the war years, radio was the voice of hope. On December 30, 1949, the radio committee became known as the radio information committee, then the editorial office of radio broadcasting, and in 1961 it received the status of a committee on radio broadcasting and television under the executive committee of the regional Council of People's Deputies of the Jewish Autonomous Region.
In the 1950s–1960s, the regional radio's technical base was updated, which led to an improvement in the quality of broadcasting.
Over the entire history of regional radio, several generations of correspondents, announcers, translators, editing operators, and sound engineers have changed. This story, full of ups and downs and tragedies, keeps many big and small secrets.
February 6, 1949
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) in the section “Across our region” wrote that a meeting of film workers was held in the propaganda and agitation department of the Birobidzhan district committee, at which they discussed the issue of cinema services for the workers of the region.
“Now the film department has received two additional carriages, all the film equipment in the area has been repaired and put in order. As a result of the exchange of views, measures have been outlined to improve film services for the rural population. Film workers from the Birobidzhan region challenged film workers from the Smidovichi region to a socialist competition.”
In the same section, correspondent M. Telerman informs readers that at school with A circle of young naturalists was organized in Birofeld, Birobidzhan district. Schoolchildren study in the circle under the guidance of the agronomist of the resettlement MTS, Comrade Merp:
“During the first classes, young naturalists became acquainted with the life and work of the great transformer of nature I.V. Michurin. In the spring and summer, the circle members will work at the school experimental site.”
The newspaper goes on to say that Russian branch of the State Theater named after. L.M. Kaganovich went on a long tour around the Smidovichi and Obluchensky districts. The theater's branch “will also give several performances in the village of Arkhara, Amur region.”
The newspaper also reports that Advanced training courses for collective farm beekeepers began to operate at the Birobidzhan regional department of agriculture. The course program is designed for 150 hours, 15 people study in the courses.
A small article in this newspaper issue says that on the collective farm named after Kirov, Leninsky district, a regional seed farm is being created for growing seeds of perennial cereals and legumes, “the sowing of local breeding varieties will be carried out on an area of 120 hectares.”
Ya. Yasinsky in the note “Young Artists” he writes that the end of the first half of the academic year at the art and graphic school was marked by a reporting exhibition (6+) student works, which presents more than a hundred drawings. “For the three-year existence of the art and graphic school, this is the first reporting exhibition. It testifies to the fruitful work of students and their teachers – artists A.P. Smelov and I.D. Pimerinov.”
February 6, 1954
The Bureau of the Regional Committee of the CPSU approved the initiative of the collective farmers of the collective farm named after. Stalin of the Leninsky district, who appealed to all collective farmers and MTS workers of the region to join the socialist competition for obtaining high yields of potatoes and vegetables in 1954, exceeding the plan for the development of livestock farming and its productivity.
February 6, 1963
The plenum of the regional committee of the CPSU adopted a resolution on the creation in the Jewish Autonomous Region of a regional committee of party-state control as a body of the regional committee of the CPSU and the regional executive committee. Secretary of the Regional Committee of the CPSU A.A. was appointed Chairman of the regional committee of party-state control. Sugrobov.
February 6, 1964
A regional meeting of leading production workers from industrial enterprises, transport, communications and construction organizations was held, at which they discussed the results of work for 1963 and the tasks for fulfilling the plan and socialist obligations for 1964. The region's industry completed its annual plan for gross output ahead of schedule, on December 16, producing an additional 3,229 thousand rubles.
The technical director of processing plant No. 2 of the Khinganolovo plant, B. Ivanov, shares his experience with workers in the tin industry of friendly China. Lam-Khun-tsai and Ho-Lu. 1956. Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
For the best production performance, the republican challenge Red Banner was awarded to the team of the Khinganolovo plant; the challenge Red Banner of the regional committee of the CPSU, the regional executive committee and the regional trade union was awarded to the team of the Dalselkhozmash plant. A large group of leading production workers were awarded the “Excellence in Socialist Competition” badges. The meeting adopted recommendations for the implementation of the plan and commitments for 1965.
February 6, 1971
The 19th regional conference took place. It was attended by 515 delegates with voting rights and 26 with advisory voting rights. The conference summed up the results of the three-year work of the regional party organization to implement the decisions of the XXIII Congress of the CPSU and the tasks of the eighth five-year plan. Industry workers in the region completed the five-year plan targets for total production ahead of schedule. Product output increased by 56%. In the resolution adopted on the report of the regional committee of the CPSU, the conference determined practical measures for the implementation of the state plan and socialist obligations for 1971 and subsequent years of the five-year plan, worthy of the meeting of the 24th Congress of the CPSU. A new composition of the regional party committee and delegates to the XV Khabarovsk party conference were elected.
At the organizational plenum, L.B. was elected first secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU. Shapiro.






