February 24, 1913
On February 24 (11.02 according to the Julian calendar), writer and poet Emmanuel Kazakevich was born.
In the 1930s he lived and worked in Birobidzhan. It was here, after graduating from the Kharkov Mechanical Engineering College, that he began his career. He worked as a cultural instructor, builder, chairman of the Valdgeim collective farm, and as a journalist in the newspaper “Birobidzhaner Stern” (12+). Kazakevich built the Rodina cinema and the Birobidzhan House of Culture, which was later transferred to the Birobidzhan State Jewish Theater. He became the organizer of the Birobidzhan Jewish State Theater and the first director.
His publications were published in “Birobidzhaner Stern” (12+) in the magazine “Forpost” (12+). In 1932, Kazakevich published the first collection of his poems in Yiddish, “Birobidzhanstroy” (6+).
Emmanuel Kazakevich composed the comedy “Milkh un honik” (“Milk and Honey”) (12+) for the repertoire of BirGOSET. He translated a number of plays from German and Russian into Yiddish. In addition to them, Kazakevich translated G. Heine from German into Hebrew, and from Russian A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, V. Mayakovsky.
At the end of the 1930s. In Birobidzhan, arrests of Jewish cultural figures began and the poet was forced to leave the city. He moved to Moscow.
At the beginning of the war he went to the front. He made his way from an ordinary militia fighter to the assistant chief of intelligence of one of the armies storming Berlin.
Kazakevich’s first work in Russian, the war story “Star” (12+) (1947), became known not only in the USSR, but also abroad. In France it was called “the most truthful work about the war.”
Since then, he has written many interesting books (6+): “Two in the Steppe” (1948), “Spring on the Oder” (1949), “The Heart of a Friend” (1953), etc. The writer twice became a laureate of the State (Stalin) Prize in Literature.
The last years of his life he worked as an editor of the collections “Literary Moscow” (12+). He died after a serious illness in 1962 in Moscow.
February 24, 1971
The Bureau of the Regional Committee of the CPSU approved the initiative of collectives of enterprises in the Birobidzhan region to organize socialist competition for the right to be called an enterprise of exemplary public order, high discipline and culture.
At the same meeting, a resolution was adopted “On improving the work of labor and recreation camps for students in senior classes of secondary schools in the region,” which identified measures to increase their role in the education and introduction of students to agricultural work.
February 24, 1978
The Secretariat of the Regional Committee of the CPSU considered the issue of the work of economic managers and the party organization of the power transformer plant to implement the decisions of the XXI regional party conference in increasing the efficiency of funds and accelerating the development of designed capacities. It was noted that the plant is constantly replacing outdated equipment and creating an automated control system. The output of products of the highest quality category in 1977 reached 23.6% of the total output; over the two years of the Tenth Five-Year Plan, production volume increased by 21.1%, and the level of labor productivity increased by 12%.
Measures have been identified to further improve the use of fixed assets of the enterprise.
February 24, 1985
Elections to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR and local Councils of People's Deputies took place. As a result of the great organizational and mass political work of party organizations, the working people of the region showed high political activity and unanimously cast their votes for the candidates of the bloc of communists and non-party members. Communists Ya. I. Kopylov, a machine operator at the collective farm “Zavety Ilyich” in the Birobidzhan region, and M. M. Kaufman, chairman of the executive committee of the regional Council of People's Deputies, were elected deputies of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR from the Jewish Autonomous Region.
On March 1, 1985, the newspaper “Birobidzhanskaya Zvezda” (12+) published lists of elected deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR from the Jewish Autonomous Region.
