
Horse shoeing. Birobidzhan Geological Expedition named after. LenOZETA. Art. Bira. 1932
Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
January 16, 1937
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) in the section “Around the city and region” informed readers the following: “The first horse breeding farm in the Blucherovsky district was organized on the collective farm “Lenin’s Path”.
35 best horses were selected for the farm: 20 mares, three sires and young stock. The stallions and ten dams are recorded in the district stud book. Special grooms are assigned to work on the farm.
At the general meeting, the collective farmers decided to build a new stable and committed to making the farm an exemplary one.”
The article “Winter Sports in Obluchye” says that in Obluchye there is a good skating rink, and a ski station is open at the railway club. Hockey players from Obluchye are preparing for a match with the Khabarovsk hockey team.
The same issue of the newspaper published an excerpt from the novel “At the Dnieper” (6+) by the famous Jewish writer David Bergelson, who was at the origins of the regional writers’ organization.
January 16, 1985
Day in the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
On the first page of the “Birobidzhan Star” for January 16, 1985, an article “The Best in the Profession” was published. It says that “the bureau of the regional committee of the CPSU, the executive committee of the regional Council of People's Deputies, the presidium of the regional trade union committee and the bureau of the regional committee of the Komsomol reviewed the results of the regional socialist competition of agricultural workers for the title “Best in the Profession” in 1984.
For achieving the highest results in fulfilling planned targets and socialist obligations, active participation in public life, the following comrades were awarded the title “Best in the Profession” with the presentation of a certificate, a commemorative medal and a gift:
- Stankevich Lidiya Mikhailovna – milkmaid of the Amur state farm,
- Matafonova Lidiya Grigorievna – calf farmer at the Pashkovsky state farm,
- Avatenko Lidiya Martynovna – pig farmer of the Gornensky state farm,
- Bozhko Lidiya Fedorovna – poultry worker at the Partizan poultry farm,
- Kozlov Nikolai Efimovich – manager of the Raddevsky state farm,
- Permyakov Alexander Alexandrovich – manager of the Puzinovsky state farm,
- Abalymov Alexander Ignatievich – manager of the Organic State Farm,
- Kupalov Vladimir Pavlovich – manager of the Oktyabrsky state farm,
- Kosarev Gennady Ivanovich – combine operator of the Border State Farm,
- Eroshenko Vladimir Nikolaevich – tractor driver of the Polevsky state farm,
- Klintsova Valentina Borisovna – insemination technician at the Border State Farm,
- Korovina Nina Vasilievna – rabbit breeder of the Far Eastern state farm,
- Samoilenko Svetlana Ivanovna – chief veterinarian of the Volochaevsky state farm,
- Khitron Pavel Abramovich – chief engineer of the Amur state farm,
- Stremeshina Raisa Petrovna – chief economist of the Nadezhdinsky state farm,
- Timofey Kirillovich Shkuratov is a driver of the PMK-94 excavator of the Birobidzhanvodstroy trust.
January 16, 1953
A plenum of the regional party committee was held, which discussed the tasks of the regional party organization in preparing and conducting elections to local Councils of Workers' Deputies.
At the plenum, the first secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU A.P. Shitikov made a report.
In the region, 1207 constituencies have been formed for elections to the regional, regional, city, district, rural and town councils. Speakers and agitators did a lot of work to explain the decisions of the 19th Party Congress. The propaganda teams of the garment factory and the artel named after. Dimitrov, the Khinganolovo plant, a mine in the village of Sutara, a collective farm named after. Kirov, Leninsky district and others.
There were 338 propaganda groups in the region, with about 4,500 agitators. More than half of them are members of the CPSU.
January 16, 1971
The communists of the Dalselmash plant summed up the results of the work to implement the decisions of the XXIII Congress of the CPSU and the tasks of the Eighth Five-Year Plan.
It was noted that on December 13, 1970, the plant staff reported on the completion of the five-year plan. Production volume increased by 25%, labor productivity by 27.7%, profit by 89.2%, profitability by 46.6%. Products worth 1,809 thousand rubles were sold in excess of the plan. 142 communists completed their five-year assignments ahead of schedule. The implementation of 642 rationalization proposals resulted in savings of 450 thousand rubles. For their dedicated work, 388 workers, engineers and employees were awarded medals “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin.”



