Dendrological park in the Jewish Autonomous Region
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April 26, 1926
On this day, Temtsin Yakov Ruvinovich, Honorary Citizen of the city of Birobidzhan, was born. In 1934, the parents moved to the village of Valdgeim Jewish Autonomous Okrug. In 1941, at the age of 15, Yakov Ruvinovich Temtsin began working as a tractor driver on the collective farm “Zavety Ilyich” in the Birobidzhan district of the Jewish Autonomous Region.
Temtsin Yakov Ruvinovich. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
In November 1943, a 17-year-old machine operator was called up to serve in the army in the rear. Yakov Ruvinovich served in the infantry. Before the start of the war with Japan, its 519th Infantry Regiment of the 393rd Infantry Division was stationed 80 kilometers from the border near the city of Voroshilov (now Ussuriysk). A few days before the opening of the Eastern Front, his regiment was transferred to Lake Khasan. Yakov Ruvinovich liberated North Korea. The war ended for him in 1952.
Having retired to the reserve, he came to the city of Birobidzhan. He got a job at a metal products factory, which later became a power transformer factory. There are only two entries in his work book: in 1952 he was hired, and in 1993 he retired. Yakov Ruvinovich rose from a simple worker to the head of the assembly shop. He was a highly skilled worker. The brigade and workshop he headed were the winners of socialist competition. With his participation, production expanded, Birobidzhan transformers were sent to consumers throughout the country and abroad.
Procurement section (transverse span of building No. 11) of workshop No. 1 of the power transformer plant. 1990. Photo: Photo: State Archives of the Jewish Autonomous Region
After retirement Y.R. Temtsin took an active part in veteran work. He was a member of the city committee of war veterans, deputy chairman of the Council of Veterans of the Power Transformer Plant. He systematically met with students of schools and vocational schools, showed concern for plant veterans, and carried out work on the patriotic education of youth. He enjoyed authority and respect among the youth and older generation of Birobidzhan.
45 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Veterans. Power transformer plant. May 1990. Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
For active work among pensioners and youth Y.R. Temtsin was included in the Honor Board “Activists of the City Veteran Organization”.
Ya.R. Temtsin was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree, and many anniversary medals.
For conscientious work and skillful leadership, he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor, the medal “For Victory over Japan,” and the badge “Veteran of Labor.”
By decision of the City Duma dated April 28, 2005 No. 6 Y.R. Temtsin was awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Birobidzhan”.
He passed away on September 16, 2011, and was buried in Birobidzhan.
April 26, 1936
The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR adopted a resolution “On the national economic plan of the Jewish Autonomous Region for 1936.”
It was planned to commission the first stage of a garment factory, two kilns of the Londokovsky lime plant for 20 thousand tons of lime, build a printing house, a ten-year school for 880 places, begin construction of a brick factory, a power plant, a regional library and other facilities.
April 26, 1960
The Bureau of the Regional Committee of the CPSU reviewed the results of the fulfillment of socialist obligations adopted by the collectives of industrial enterprises in the region in honor of the 90th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin. The adopted resolution noted that the region fulfilled the four-month socialist obligations for gross output and the use of funds for capital construction by April 22. 15 teams were given the title of brigades, shifts, and workshops of communist labor, the creative activity of workers increased, 600 improvement proposals were submitted, 60 pieces of equipment were modernized, and the number of followers of V. Gaganova’s initiative increased.
April 26, 1995
By decree of the administration of the Jewish Autonomous Region, a dendrological park was organized in the Jewish Autonomous Region.
Dendrological park in the Jewish Autonomous Region. Photo: Photo: Website “Reserved Russia”
The dendrological park was established with the aim of creating a dendrological collection, preserving and enriching various plant resources in artificial conditions for their most effective scientific, cultural and economic use.
The dendrological park is located in the southwestern part of Birobidzhan on the 9th km of the Birofeldskoe highway in a mountainous area represented by part of the Khingan-Bureya mountain system.
