June 6, 1939
At a meeting of communists of the Stalinsky (now Oktyabrsky) district, the results of the May Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks were discussed, which approved the draft Resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR “On measures to protect public lands of collective farms from squandering.” Party organizations of collective farms were asked to mobilize communists, Komsomol members and all collective farmers to fight against the distortions of party policy in collective farm construction and violations of the agricultural artel charter.
June 6, 1948
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) on June 6, 1948, in the permanent column “Across Our Region” talked about the village of Ekaterino-Nikolsky, Stalinsky (now Oktyabrsky) district.
Huts of the first Cossacks in Ekaterino-Nikolskoye. Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
The oldest settlement in the region was founded in 1858 and got its name from the name and patronymic of the wife of the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia Muravyov-Amursky – Ekaterina Nikolaevna. Already at that time, Ekaterino-Nikolskoye was a large populated area. Here there was a village administration, two bread stores, three shops, a drinking establishment and two schools with 20 students. In a large village there were two teachers, a clerk for the village administration, and a priest. The village was inhabited by Cossacks of the foot half-battalion.
The appearance of the village has changed beyond recognition. The largest collective farm in the region is located here. Stalin, post office, telephone, telegraph, radio, hospital, rural club and library. Mail is delivered to the village by postal plane. Steamships regularly land at the pier. There is a control and seed station, a veterinary station, and a weather station.
The pride of Ekaterino-Nikolsk is a secondary school with 336 students.
In the same section they wrote that this year Birobidzhan Furniture Factory named after. Dimitrova conducts logging for the first time for production needs on their own. Preparations take place at the 21st kilometer of the Birofeldskoe highway. Here, at the forest site, wood is cut, which saves 40% of the money that was previously spent cutting wood in the Detal cooperative.
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
In March 1948, a GSO (Ready for Sanitary Defense) circle was organized at the school of cultural education. It was headed by paramedic Lyubov Markovna Braverman. Of the 37 students who studied in the circle, 23 passed their tests with excellent marks. For the good organization of classes and high academic performance, the city committee of the Red Cross expressed gratitude to Lyubov Markovna. The work of the primary organization of the Red Cross was excellent at school. 50 percent of students are involved in the community.
June 6, 1962
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
The newspaper “Birobidzhanskaya Zvezda” dated June 6, 1962 published an article by D. Shaver “Vorobiev – a partisan commander.” In which it was told about the activities of Fyodor Vorobyov, who during the Civil War in the Far East was the commander of the Kuldur partisan detachment. There were only 20-25 fighters in the detachment. The partisans, unable to engage in open battle with the interventionists, committed sabotage. They disrupted telegraph communications, disabled railway structures, and burned bridges.
“The interventionists, not knowing the size of the detachment, believed that the taiga was teeming with partisans. To protect themselves from a sudden attack, the overseas newcomers kept quite large garrisons in Obluchye, Bir and smaller ones – in Londoko, Birakan, Tikhonkaya. There was heavy security of tunnels and railway bridges. And it turned out that a tiny partisan detachment pinned down up to a thousand Japanese, did not allow them to be used in battles with the Red Army…”
June 6, 1970
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
The newspaper of the Obluchensky district “Iskra Khingan” (12+) on June 6, 1970 introduced readers to the memoirs of technician Alexander Ivanovich Mulin, a graduate of the St. Petersburg Technological School, about the construction of the Obluchensky section of the Great Trans-Siberian Railway.
Ussuriysk railway. Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
“1911. The journey from the village of Pashkovskaya to the site of the future station took us three days. There were no roads, and the workers had to cut a clearing with axes. Among us there were many yesterday’s students of the St. Petersburg university and technological school. Therefore, the first street built in Obluchye was called Nevsky Prospekt. Young St. Petersburg residents united in a commune. We tried to somehow brighten up the hopeless life of the builder. Together with the workers created, so to speak, a folk theater. I remember the first performance was L. Andreev’s play “Days of Our Lives” (12+). The theater was very popular. Peasants from nearby villages came to watch the performances. I will forever remember the young builder-cabman Yakov Termasov. He was an educated worker for that time, with a great sense of self-esteem. Yakov was the editor and, so to speak, the publisher of the satirical leaflet. “Suk”. However, only a few issues of this first wall newspaper in Obluchye were published. In 1915, the Obluchensky section of the highway was put into operation…”
June 6, 1975
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” on June 6, 1975, on its pages, reported that from June 4 to June 6, 1935, the first regional conference of the party organization of the Jewish Autonomous Region took place. The conference was preceded by a lot of organizational work. Back in August 1934, by decision of the Far Regional Committee of the Party, the organizational bureau of the Far Eastern Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks was created for the Jewish Autonomous Region.
The first regional party conference was attended by 185 voting delegates, representing 828 party members and candidate members, united in 86 primary party organizations.
The conference elected a regional party committee and an audit commission, and called on all communists in the region, workers, and collective farmers to fulfill the tasks assigned to the region.
The first organizational plenum elected two secretaries of the regional committee, a bureau consisting of nine members and five candidates. After the conference, party organizations in the region focused on improving party mass work, increasing the political and labor activity of workers, collective farmers and intellectuals.
