Rafting of timber on the river. Malaya Bira. Birobidzhan. 1937
Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
February 11, 1937
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
Newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) in the section “Across the city and region” wrote that the Molniya physical culture society is preparing to hold a winter sports competition (6+).
The State Theater team began work on the play “Boytra” (6+) by the Jewish Soviet playwright Kulbak:
“The writer D. Bergelson gave a lecture to the artists about the era of Nicholas I, against which the action of the play unfolds. The artist Rabichev began making a model. The music for the play will be written by the composer Bugaevsky. The choreography in the play is entrusted to the choreographer Itskhoki. The composer and choreographer are leaving Moscow for Birobidzhan to work in the theater.”
Schoolchildren near the building of the State Jewish Theater. Birobidzhan. 1936. Photo: Photo: State Archives of the Jewish Autonomous Region
The article “Exhibition of Models” talks about the models of the clothing factory, that the workers of the clothing factory do not study the demand of customers, but sew models blindly, “suits and dresses are made not for people with varied tastes, but for the abstract consumer, according to the principle “take what they give.” But times are different now. The consumer has long no longer wanted to take what is given, he buys only what he likes. The laboratory of the clothing factory has produced more 40 models of men's, women's and children's clothing: coats, suits and dresses… It is planned to convene a conference of consumers and representatives of trading organizations, who will be shown this first exhibition of models in Birobidzhan (0+).”
The newspaper talks about how on the collective farm. Lavrentyev, Birobidzhan district, an agrotechnical circle began to work, collective farmers enthusiastically took up the study of agricultural technology: “Stakhanovites Rugalskaya, Peslek, Gelfer and others are studying well. Some undertake to pass a good agrotechnical exam, which will be held after the end of the 70-hour program. Collective farmers undertake to put their knowledge into practice and achieve a record harvest in 1937.”
February 11, 1939
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
The newspaper “Birobidzhanskaya Zvezda” wrote that the first regional party conference took place in the Leninsky district. 102 delegates took part in the conference. The following issues were considered on the agenda: discussion of the theses of Comrade Molotov’s report at the Eighteenth Party Congress on the third five-year plan for the development of the national economy of the USSR. Discussion of the theses of Comrade Zhdanov’s report at the XVIII Party Congress on changes in the charter of the CPSU (b). Election of delegates to the regional party conference.
The conference adopted resolutions in which it fully approved the theses of the reports of vol. Molotov and Zhdanov.
“18 people were elected to the regional party conference by secret ballot, including deputies of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR Comrades Bigler and Stepanenko, order bearers Comrades Ibragimov, Pozharsky, secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU (b) Comrade Kushnir, secretary of the Lenin district party committee Comrade Nasedkin. The proposal to elect “an honorary delegate to the regional party conference of the leader of the people, Comrade Stalin. Having heard and approved the report of the credentials committee, the conference ended its work.”
The article by the chief accountant of the construction office of the regional executive committee, A. Yuskov, “To expand the construction of our region in a Bolshevik manner,” talks about the reasons for the failure of construction plans in the region, the improper work of logging offices and problems with transport. Positive construction attempts in the area are also cited:
“So, in Waldheim and Stalindorf, logging for the construction of 1939 was, according to an agreement, entrusted to collective farms, which allocated horses and labor for this purpose and successfully completed their task. The Waldheim collective farm found the opportunity to harvest timber not far from the construction site and thereby relieved construction organizations of long-distance and difficult transportation. Some resettlement collective farms successfully carried out construction in their own country using an economic method, for example, The collective farm “Valdheim” built the vegetable storage facility itself, the collective farm “Ikor” built a cowshed and outbuildings for collective farmers. In the third five-year plan, resettlement to our region will take place mainly in the order of repopulating existing collective farms. In 1939, collective farm construction will take place in our region at 46 construction sites. With such scattered construction, it is unthinkable for the work to be carried out successfully from one center, without the active participation of collective farms and district executive committees.
February 11, 1941
The meeting of the party activists of the Leninsky district approved, in accordance with the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks of January 7, 1941, measures to increase the production of consumer goods and food from local raw materials. It was planned to build a number of workshops and production facilities within a year and produce consumer goods and food worth almost one and a half million rubles at local industrial enterprises.
February 11, 1952
The Bureau of the Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks approved the appeal of the collective farmers and collective farmers of the agricultural artel named after. Kirov, Leninsky district to all collective farmers, workers of MTS, state farms, agricultural specialists of the region about the organization of socialist competition for the successful implementation of the 1952 agricultural year.
February 11, 1960
The reference and information publication “Streets of the City of Birobidzhan” (0+) contains information that by decision of the Birobidzhan City Executive Committee dated February 11, 1960 No. 54, Smidovicha and Smidovichskaya streets were combined into one street and given the name Smidovichskaya.
February 11, 1978
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” wrote about the competition between the two cities of Birobidzhan and Amursk. To sum up the results of socialist competition, delegates from the city of Amursk arrived in Birobidzhan. The workers of Birobidzhan and Amursk have been competing for several years now. This competition helps workers in the struggle to fulfill the tasks of the Tenth Five-Year Plan. The guests visited the power transformer plant, the shoe factory, the Stroitel stadium and the construction of the House of Pioneers and Schoolchildren. “Members of the delegation from Amursk were interested in everything: the development of design capacities, the introduction of mechanization and automation, issues of staffing and training, housing and cultural construction in Birobidzhan. Particular attention was paid to the organization of socialist competition, the implementation of plans and tasks of the five-year plan.”
The section “They are ahead” tells about the enterprises of the region that exceeded the plan: the Khinganolovo plant – the January production plan was fulfilled by 101%; Dalselmash plant – the January production plan was fulfilled by 100.6 percent, sales by 106%; Smidovichi Dairy Plant – the January production plan was fulfilled by 112.5%, sales by 102.5%.
In small notes “In our region” it is said that in the regional center a ski campaign has started along the route Birobidzhan-Volochaevka (0+), dedicated to the 56th anniversary of the Battle of Volochaevka and the 60th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Among the participants in the transition are the best young industrial workers and athletes.
The newspaper reports that a theme evening dedicated to the leading workers of the Trudovaya Niva collective farm was held at the House of Culture in the village of Novoe, Leninsky district.
