Monument to V.I. Lenin, installed in Birobidzhan. 1978
Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
May 21, 1936
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) published the following material under the heading “Chronicle of city improvement”:
“The city architectural bureau has begun work. The bureau’s task is to monitor the architectural design of the city and its planned development.
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
An advertising bureau has been organized at the city committee. Advertisements will no longer be pasted anywhere, disfiguring fences and walls of houses, but on artistically designed boards that will be hung in places specially designated for this purpose.”
May 21, 1969
Rally of workers of the city of Birobidzhan, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin. 1970 Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
The Bureau of the Regional Committee of the CPSU considered the issue “On the work of regional cultural institutions in preparation for the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin.” The adopted resolution noted that cultural institutions in the region are carrying out certain work on the communist education of workers and preparation for the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin. There are 86 Lenin lecture halls in the region, theme evenings, readings, oral journals, and film festivals dedicated to the life and work of V. I. Lenin are organized. With the participation of cultural workers, 50 Lenin rooms and museums were created.
Reception of schoolchildren as pioneers on the day of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin in Birobidzhan. 1970 Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
Work has intensified to strengthen the material base of cultural institutions. 18 new buildings of cultural centers and clubs have been built, and 13 more clubs are under construction. The regional committee bureau obliged the culture department and the regional trade union council to take effective measures to improve the work of cultural institutions and introduce comprehensive propaganda methods in the main areas of ideological, political, labor and moral education of workers.
May 21, 1983
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” dedicated the column “Years and Fates” to our fellow countrymen – veterans of the Great Patriotic War.
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
Note by M. Baranovsky “Be healthy, Mikhail Lvovich!” about Mikhail Lvovich Zlotnikov, a participant in the Soviet-Japanese War in the Far East.
“He came to Birobidzhan from Belarus as a resettlement in 1932. He remembers how, after getting off the train, he stopped on a patch of flat land – now this is the station square.
The director of a garment factory under construction took a liking to the serious guy, and he invited Mikhail to head the personnel department, but the office work soon bored the active Zlotnikov, and he went to a construction site, where he first became acquainted with pumps for pumping out water, a pickaxe, an ax and a shovel – simple tools of builders of those years.
The second major construction project of Mikhail Lvovich is the Detal artel. When the first batch of cars arrived in the city, he mastered the profession of a driver and for several years transported timber from the taiga, rubble stone, concrete… This work was also related to construction.
Twenty-three years were given only to the Birobidzhanstroy trust.
I will forever remember the day when, with a camp bag over my shoulders, wearing the shoulder straps of a senior lieutenant, having returned from the war, I happily walked along the familiar streets of Birobidzhan. I rejoiced in the spring, the sun, and life.
Soon he started a family. Birobidzhan residents know Mikhail Lvovich’s wife well. A veteran of medicine, Maria Vladimirovna Karpovskaya devoted many years to the cause of protecting the health of her fellow countrymen.
Behind is a big life, full of overcoming, labor, but still happy, because it is extremely honest and pure. And ahead there are many joys inherent in an elderly person who has prosperous children and grandchildren.”
The next article “Once and Forever” by A. Devichev about the veteran of the Great Patriotic War Isaac Grigorievich Shmukler.
“… His migrant parents came to the village of Babstovo when he was an infant. Here he grew up and became a hairdresser. In his work book there is only one entry: “Hired as a hairdresser.
In the early days of 1941, Isaac Grigorievich was called up for active service. Here he received the news of the attack on our country by Nazi Germany. In October 1941, the eleventh fascist army broke into Crimea. One part of it was sent to storm Sevastopol, the other headed east, towards the Kerch Peninsula. And Kerch was defended by the Kerch naval base and troops of the 51st Separate Army, in which Private Shmukler fought as a signalman.
I.G. Shmukler took part in the battles near Rostov-on-Don, Yelnya, and liberated Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. He ended the war in East Prussia at the walls of Koenigsberg. Throughout the war, Isaac Grigorievich was on the front line… The soldier’s family archive contains the Order of the Red Star, Glory of the second degree, medals “For the Capture of Koenigsberg”, “For Courage”, “For Military Merit”, “For Defense of the Caucasus” and others.
After demobilization, Isaac Grigorievich returned to his native village, where his wife, children, parents were waiting for him…
Twenty-two times, fellow villagers elected Isaac Grigorievich as a deputy of the village Council of People's Deputies. From 1970 to 1974, the communist Shmukler headed the local party organization.”
