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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Extensive industrial, agricultural and cultural development of Biro-Bidjan, Jewish autonomous region in Siberia, is provided for in Soviet Russia’s third Five-Year Plan. Plans for industrial ...

In connection with the decision of the Soviet government adopted on October 1 to take measures for the economic and cultural development of the Jewish autonomous region in Bureya the agencies ...

It is planned the Amuro-Khinganskaya Advanced-Development Territory will enter agreements with at least two new business residents on three investment projects to build transshipment, agro-logistic ...