Ilya Savelievich Lipin
Photo: Regional Library
March 6, 1935
A meeting took place between the Secretary of the Organizing Bureau of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of the JAO Khavkin and the Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee of Liberberg with the best shock students of the Russian ten-year school. This meeting was attended by Comrade Anshin, Schwartzbord, Red Army chiefs and others. M. Khavkin and I. Liberberg told schoolchildren about the VII All-Union and XVI All-Russian Congresses of Soviets. A lively conversation ensued about the achievements of the Motherland, the education of a new generation of socialist builders, and the specific activities and tasks of the school.
March 6, 1941
Ilya Savelyevich Lipin. Photo: Photo: Newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”
Ilya Savelyevich Lipin, correspondent, was born in Obluchye.
While still at school in the 7th grade, Ilya began collaborating with newspapers; his first article, “Volodya Saved Lenya,” was published in 1956 in the regional newspaper “Young Far East” (16+).
Ilya Lipin did his military service in one of the construction battalions in Novosibirsk, was demobilized with the rank of private in 1963, and two years later put on a police uniform.
I. S. Lipin began his professional career in 1967 in the editorial office of the regional newspaper “Iskra Khingan” (12+), published in the city of Obluchye.
In July 1970, Ilya Savelyevich joined the Union of Journalists of Russia. And in 1980, he was sent to the village of Leninskoye to serve as editor of the regional newspaper “Amurskaya Niva” (12+), where he worked for 25 years.
Ilya Lipin’s book “Next to Us” (6+) contains essays and sketches about the people of the Leninsky district and region who left a noticeable mark on the development of the Jewish Autonomous Region.
Ilya Savelyevich Lipin. Photo: Newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”
Ilya Savelyevich Lipin. Photo: EAOMedia news agency archive
In 2020, by the decision of the Assembly of Deputies of the Leninsky Municipal District, for his active social and educational activities, I. S. Lipin was awarded the title “Honorary Resident of the Municipal Formation “Leninsky Municipal District of the Jewish Autonomous Okrug”.
In 2020, Ilya Lipin was awarded the commemorative medal “100 years of the Union of Journalists of Russia.” These are not the journalist’s only awards; he has repeatedly won regional creative competitions. For his many years of work in the press, he was awarded various awards.
On January 17, 2025, one of the oldest members of the branch of the Union of Journalists of Russia in the Jewish Autonomous Region, Ilya Savelyevich Lipin, died.
March 6, 1957
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) wrote on its pages about fish farmer I.M. Vasiliev, who was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor. This is how it is said in the note “A high reward obliges”:
“Ivan Mikhailovich Vasiliev devoted many years of intense creative work to the development of the fisheries industry of the Far East. An experienced fish farmer began his career in 1925 in Vladivostok. From 1927 to 1938, Ivan Mikhailovich worked at Kamchatka and Sakhalin fish hatcheries, and from 1938 to the present – at the Teplovsky plant in the Obluchensky district. For success in development fishing industry By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 2, together with a large group of fishing industry workers, Comrade Vasiliev was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.
In the section “Around the Stalin District” (now the Oktyabrsky District of the Jewish Autonomous Okrug), readers were informed that in the fall of 1956 a delegation from the Labei District of Heilongjiang Province of the People's Republic of China visited the region. The guests, visiting collective farms, got acquainted with the experience of agriculture, housekeeping, and the activities of machine and tractor stations.
“The collective farmers eagerly told the guests about their affairs, and when they got ready to leave, they presented them with various gifts, including a small amount of seeds of the Dalnevostochnaya variety of wheat. Recently, residents of Labeisky district and the cooperative that received the Far Eastern seeds sent to the region the seeds of their Kamergroy wheat variety, which gives them up to 30-odd centners of grain per hectare. They also received 400 kilograms of seeds high-yielding soybean variety Yuan-baojin.
The same section contains information that on the dairy farm of the collective farm named after. Malenkov electric milking equipment was installed.
“The first milkings showed good results. Electric milking frees up time for milkmaids, makes work much easier, improves animal welfare and increases milk yield.”
A three-day seminar of medical workers on the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of tuberculosis was held in Amurzet.
“The seminar participants listened to a number of lectures on tuberculosis, given by the doctor of the Birobidzhan TB dispensary V.O. Weidner, lectures on diphtheria, radiation sickness. At the end of the seminar, an exchange of experience in the work of medical institutions in the region was organized.”
March 6, 1968
The Bureau of the Regional Committee of the CPSU considered the issue “On the work of the Birobidzhan City Committee of the CPSU to strengthen mass political work in the collectives of enterprises and institutions of the city in connection with the transition to a five-day working week.” The adopted resolution drew the attention of party committees to the need to make fuller use of new working and rest conditions for comprehensive spiritual and physical development, advanced training, general educational level, and for the wider involvement of workers of the Jewish Autonomous Region in social activities.
