May 5, 1900
On this day, Salvador Borges (Bezalel Elevich Borodin, Boris Ilyich), a famous Jewish writer, was born in Rozhitsa, Volyn province.
At the age of 14 he ended up in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. There he began writing under the pseudonym Salvador Borges. In 1928, he, his brother and his sister's family were forced to leave Brazil. Having received Soviet citizenship, in 1935 he came to Birobidzhan, worked in the editorial office of the newspaper “Birobidzhaner Stern” (12+) and “Birobidzhan Star” (12+), and as an editor at the regional radio committee. From 1943 to 1945 he worked at the regional library named after Sholom Aleichem as head of the department of Jewish literature.
Borges S. was published in local newspapers, the Forpost magazine (12+), the Birobidzhan almanac (0+), the Einikait newspaper (12+), and anthologies. Author of stories, essays, memoirs in Yiddish and many famous novels.
In 1937 and 1949 he was subjected to repression and returned to Birobidzhan. In 1949, he was fired from the newspaper and until 1956 he worked as an agent, charging the population for the use of radio points. Rehabilitated.
S. Borges died in 1974 in Birobidzhan.
May 5, 2010
In Birobidzhan, on a house on the street. Chapaeva, 2, where the writer Salvador Borges lived for many years, a memorial plaque was inaugurated.
May 5, 1941
The Bureau of the Khabarovsk Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Executive Committee of the Regional Council of Workers' Deputies adopted a resolution “On measures for economic and cultural construction in the Jewish Autonomous Region.”
It notes that over the years of its existence the region has achieved significant success in the development of industry, agriculture and socialist culture.
A convoy plant, a garment factory, a Birsky timber plant, a lime plant, a furniture factory and a number of other enterprises were built and put into operation. The gross output of state industry increased from 1.8 million rubles in 1934 to 16.4 million rubles in 1940, and the gross output of the cooperative industry increased accordingly from 3.9 to 38.7 million rubles.
During this period, the sown area increased by more than 10 thousand hectares.
The resolution defines measures to further enhance the economic and cultural development of the Jewish Autonomous Region.
May 5, 1947
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
In the “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) for May 5, 1947, an article by Naum Friedman “Writers of Birobidzhan” was published. It gives a critical assessment of the work of B. Miller, G. Rabinkov, L. Wasserman and I. Bronfman.
May 5, 1956
The plenum of the regional committee of the CPSU discussed the status and measures to improve the work of state farms in the region. It was noted that the sown area of state farms is 19.4 thousand hectares or 21% of the crops of collective and state farms combined: they have 3,635 heads of cattle. In 1956, 20-25% of the region's agricultural production was concentrated on state farms. It was decided to put into circulation in 1956 at least 19,500 hectares of new land using virgin lands and fallow lands, to build 12 thousand tons of silos, to prepare 34.1 thousand tons of roughage and succulent feed, and to put 12 livestock buildings into operation.
The plenum obliged party and trade union organizations to raise the level of socialist competition, to mobilize collectives of workers and employees of state farms to fulfill the established tasks ahead of schedule in the first year of the sixth five-year plan.
May 5, 1979
The newspaper “Birobidzhan Star” under the heading “Figures and Facts” posted materials from the regional party archive about labor successes, production achievements, awards for leading teams in the region, important events, party meetings and conferences during the post-war five-year plans from 1946 to 1975.
Let's look at some facts from the article:
“In 1946, when the country was still healing the wounds caused by the war, party and government resolutions were adopted aimed at further strengthening the economy and culture, improving the material well-being of the workers of our region. Industrial enterprises were provided with great assistance with materials and equipment, MTS and state farms received a large amount of new equipment, collective farms were provided with grain seeds and fodder for public livestock farming. The People's Commissariat of Agriculture, Education and Health were sent to area of doctors, teachers, agricultural specialists.
In January 1946, by decision of the State Defense Committee, construction of a plant began on the basis of the Khingan tin deposit. Soon the enrichment plant was put into operation.
A paper mill began operating in the village of Birakan.
Workshop of the Birakan paper mill in 1978. Photo: Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
The construction of the Teploozersky cement plant, which began back in 1940 and was interrupted due to the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, was resumed. In 1949, the first stage of this plant was put into operation.
In 1950, the consolidation of small collective farms into large ones began. 23 farms were consolidated in the region. This made it possible to more effectively resolve issues related to the further development of agricultural production, make better use of material and human resources, significantly reduce the administrative and managerial apparatus, more energetically introduce scientific achievements and best practices into production, and increase labor productivity.
One of the first in the region the title of communist labor brigade was awarded to the brigade of masons of the Birobidzhanstroy trust, which was headed by the communist David Yakovlevich Glazer. In April 1962, this brigade, trying to take part in the rise of agriculture through its direct labor, switched to the construction of cultural, household and industrial buildings on state farms in the region.”
May 5, 1991
Branch of the Pension Fund of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Photo: Photo: Website of the Pension Fund of the EAO
In accordance with Resolution of the Board of the RSFSR Pension Fund dated May 5, 1991 No. 87, a branch of the RSFSR Pension Fund for the Jewish Autonomous Region was formed.
