Motya Kogan and Boris Medinsky, drummers of Waldheim
Photo: Heritage JAO
November 21, 1940
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) on November 21, 1940 wrote about the successes of the collective farm “Waldheim”. On the pages of the newspaper, collective farmers, blacksmiths, and milkmaids talk about their successes and the wealth of the Far Eastern region. Vegetable grower Shifra Markovna Kochina spoke about socialist competition with another team of vegetable growers:
“Our teams were divided into units, they were assigned plots, and each unit was responsible for processing vegetables in its own area. Even in the deep winter, each team, each unit knew where and what we would sow. In early spring, we laid out greenhouses. Our vegetable growing teams continue to compete for an abundance of vegetables to supply the working people of Birobidzhan.”
The column “Prosperous and Cultural” talks about how collective farmers can afford to buy gramophones, bicycles, sewing machines, various furniture, carpets and many different consumer goods. The article says that in every house of the collective farmers of Valdheim there is a radio, and not only:
“…the collective farm has a good club, a library, a reading room. Collective farmers and the collective farm subscribe to 35 copies of regional newspapers, 105 copies of regional newspapers, 50 copies of central and 55 copies of various magazines.”
Day in the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
On the same page of the newspaper, the volumes of harvesting increased and growth figures were printed: “In 1939, the sown area of the Waldheim collective farm was 320 hectares, in 1940 – 406 hectares, and in 1941 526.5 hectares will be sown. The yield of collective farm fields is growing. In 1939, the collective farm harvested 1,313 centners of grain, 3,540 centners of vegetables and 1,127 tons of potatoes. In 1940, the collective farm harvested 1,956 centners of grain, 4,010 centners of vegetables and 1,500 tons of potatoes. The collective farm has three livestock farms.
November 21, 1996
The Amurzet customs post of Birobidzhan customs has been operating since November 21, 1996.
The first head of the customs post was Andrey Yurievich Dubinsky.
Customs post employees fight smuggling and other crimes and offenses in the field of customs, suppress illegal trafficking across the customs border of narcotic drugs, weapons, cultural property, radioactive substances, endangered species of animals and plants, their parts and derivatives, intellectual property and other goods.
In 2016, new weighing systems for automatically determining the weight and dimensional characteristics of cargo vehicles, Rubezh-M, were installed at the Nizhneleninskoye and Amurzet checkpoints.
