April 8, 1937
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) in the section “Around the city and region” wrote that advanced training courses began to operate at the Sutar gold mine.
A knitting workshop began operating at the resettled collective farm “Reuther Stern”.
A school of chess and checkers instructors began operating under the regional council for physical education and sports.
The Birobidzhan flying club received its third training aircraft from Moscow.
The city administration department purchased a 50-seater boat, which will be used as a means of transportation for residents of the Partizansky village and Tukelev Island.
April 8, 1971
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
In the reference and information publication “Administrative-territorial structure of the Jewish Autonomous Region 1858-2003.” (0+) the village of Krasivoye was transferred from the Lazarevsky Village Council of the Leninsky District to the Birushkinsky Village Council of the Birobidzhansky District on the basis of the decision of the Khabarovsk Regional Executive Committee dated April 8, 1971 No. 251 in connection with the formation of the Dimitrovsky State Farm on the territory of the villages of Krasivoye and Dimitrovo.
Reference: the village of Krasivoe was founded in the late 30s of the twentieth century during the construction of the Birobidzhan-Leninskoye railway line. The name of the village was given due to its favorable landscape.
The regional highway Birofeld – Amurzet passes through the village of Krasivoe. The distance to Birobidzhan is 76 km.
April 8, 1971
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” published a Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on conferring the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the gold medal “Hammer and Sickle” to the most distinguished workers for outstanding success in fulfilling the tasks of the five-year plan, achieving high indicators:
Karasik Khaya Abramovna – seamstress and motor operator at the Birobidzhan textile and clothing factory.
Pazdnikov Vladimir Erofeevich – head of the corn-growing detachment of the Dobrinsky state farm of the Leninsky district of the Jewish Autonomous Okrug.
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
In the same newspaper, in the article “Obelisk in the Taiga,” it is said that an avid amateur hunter between the villages of Novokamenskaya and Golubichny on the left bank of the Tunguska discovered an obelisk with the inscription: “Here… the first chairman of the Tunguska volost council, Alexander Vasilyevich Protsenko, was buried, tortured by bandits of Ataman Kalmykov.” The article tells about the military path of the chairman of the zemstvo council, how, when he was recruiting soldiers for Ataman Kalmykov, he gave false information about the conscripts to the military commander: the sick went to the draft and returned, and the healthy ones received a certificate from the council that their year was not a conscription year. Alexander Protsenko encouraged young people to join partisan detachments.
“The Kur-Urmiysky district executive committee at one time erected an obelisk on the grave of A.V. Protsenko. The best pioneer detachment of the Volochaev school was named after A.V. Protsenko. Pioneers often go on hikes to the obelisk of the national hero, take care of his sacred grave. There is an obelisk in the taiga. And the hero is not forgotten. Caring hands protect his peace. The people remember their son.”
Reference: Alexander Vasilyevich Protsenko was born in 1892 in the Ekaterinodar province (now Krasnodar region), graduated from high school. In the summer of 1909, Alexander came to his family in the village of Volochaevka with a diploma as a folk teacher and violinist. But he never managed to work in his specialty. Before the First World War, Alexander worked on the construction of the railway. In 1914 he was drafted into the tsarist army and in the same year he was sent to the front of the First World War. In the spring of 1918 he returned home to Volochaevka. In October in Pokrovka at the volost Congress of Soviets, Alexander was elected chairman of the Tunguska volost.
In 1918, having met Ivan Pavlovich Shevchuk, he began, together with him and Postyshev, to organize the first partisan detachment in the area of the village of Arkhangelovka.
In the village of Kalinovka at dawn on August 20, 1919, A. Protsenko was captured by the punitive expedition of Ataman Kalmykov. Alexander was subjected to brutal torture. The punitive forces forbade the peasants of Kalinovka to bury Protsenko under penalty of death. After their departure, on the seventh day, Kochnev’s partisan detachment arrived in the village and, together with the peasants of the village of Kalinovka, buried the tortured body in the taiga outside the village, at the site of his execution.
