The story of Birobidzhan is an obscure one, according to Robert Weinberg, a professor of history at Swarthmore College. In the United States, he says, only septuagenarians and historians are likely to ...

BIROBIDZHAN, Russia -- The pioneers came in the late 1920s, lured to the uninhabited Siberian forests and mosquito-infested swamps by a mixture of communist ideological fervor and their dream of a ...

The Jewish Autonomous Region will receive 700 million rubles in 2026. government funding for the renovation of regional roads. This was reported in the telegram channel of the Ministry of Transport ...

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a program to offer financial incentives encouraging Russian expats to move to the former Jewish autonomous region of Birobidzhan. The program hopes to ...

BIROBIDZHAN, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region, a curious territory for Jews created by Josef Stalin, is playing a big role in a new drive by Russia to boost exports to China. Sign ...

New York newspapers last week broke out in a rash of three-quarter-page fund-raising advertisements extolling the beauties and virtues of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidjan in Soviet Siberia.

BIROBIDZHAN, Russia (Reuters) - The tractor plant in this curious Russian outpost once made machinery to work the land settled by Jewish immigrants under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Sign up here.

Musician and anti-war activist Pavel Kushnir died in a pre-trial detention center in Birobidzhan, the capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Russia, the Telegram channel "Vot Tak" reported on Aug.

"At the meeting, Nikolay Pankov singled out such regions as Moscow and Sevastopol, the republics of Altai, Bashkortostan, Ingushetia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Komi, Tyva, Chechnya, Astrakhan, Voronezh, ...

It is noted that in the Jewish Autonomous Region, a 35-year-old was detained on suspicion of treason for Ukrainian intelligence MOSCOW, December 23. /TASS/. The Federal Security Service (FSB) has ...