Parish in the name of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Obluchye
Photo: Orthodoxy of the Jewish Autonomous Region
March 18, 1892
On this day, Aleksey Alekseevich Badonyi-Nandor was born – sculptor, author of the sculpture of the People's Army soldier on the museum building on Volochaevskaya Hill, veteran of the Volochaevskaya battle. A. Badonyi is Hungarian by nationality. In 1912 he graduated from the Higher Industrial and Art School in Budapest with a degree in sculptor.
He was a participant in the First World War, a prisoner of war who remained in Russia after the war.
During the Civil War from 1918-1920. fought in a partisan detachment on the side of the Red Army. Participant in the assault on Volochaevka in February 1922.
In 1928, according to the design of A. A. Badonya, a sculpture of a Red Army soldier was erected on the June-Koran hill on top of the monument-museum building.
The history of the creation of this almost three-meter sculpture is interesting. Here's how archival materials talk about it:
“The figure of the Red Army soldier was approved by the city and regional authorities and the labor teacher of the Khabarovsk Pedagogical College Badoni and students worked on it.” In the book “Volochaevskaya Victory” (6+) by the authors N.I. Ryabov, M.G. Stein it is written: “the figure was not included in the project. It appeared on the initiative of the labor teacher of the Khabarovsk Pedagogical College Badonia.
One day A. A. Badonyi brought to the workshop a miniature figure of a Red Army soldier sculpted from clay, who raised an equally miniature rifle above his head, even the trigger of which was precisely made. Badonyi was a man of few words; he still had poor command of Russian speech and spoke with a strong accent. “Here,” he said, “we will enlarge this figure several hundred times… A few days later, work began to boil. Some carried clay to the technical school site, others built a frame for a future sculpture from water pipes. For a long time, the guys, under the leadership of Badonya, sculpted a huge figure of a Red Army soldier. And when it was ready, they began to make molds from plaster. Concrete was poured into these forms. After long and hard work, the concrete parts of the sculpture were finally cast. They were to be taken to Volochaevka and mounted on the roof of the monument.
First, the sculpture was placed at the entrance to the building, the construction of which was being completed. Then, before completing the work, the sculpture was concreted on the roof of the monument-museum.”
March 18, 1992
On the initiative of the residents of the city of Obluchye, with the blessing of Bishop Innocent of Khabarovsk and Blagoveshchensk, a parish in the name of the Transfiguration of the Lord was formed and registered.
March 18, 1915
Poet Aron Iosifovich Kopshtein. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
On this day, Aron Iosifovich Kopshtein, a poet, was born.
He was brought up in an orphanage. In the early 1930s he published his first poems in the Kharkov press. The first poetry book was published in 1933.
He was in the Far East and dedicated a number of poems to Birobidzhan. He was engaged in poetic translations.
Published in the books “The Joyful Shore” (0+), “Poems” (0+).
He volunteered to go to the front during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940. He died in battle while trying to carry out the body of his fellow soldier and friend, Nikolai Otrada.
March 18, 1962
Elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR took place. Among the five deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR elected from the Jewish Autonomous Region are the communists A.K. Cherny – first secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU, R. E. Vishchinikina – leader-vegetable grower of the collective farm “Zavety Ilyich” in the Birobidzhan region, A. P. Karepin – senior foreman of the processing plant of the “Khinganolovo” plant, N. N. Chepelenko – chairman of the economic council Khabarovsk Economic Administrative District, A. M. Shubina – calf farmer at the Pogranichny state farm in Oktyabrsky District.
March 18, 1981
A meeting of the active members of the regional and Birobidzhan party organizations was held, which approved the decisions of the XXVI Party Congress, the main directions of economic and social development of the USSR for 1981-1985 and for the period until 1990, and determined the tasks of the regional party organization.
