Jewish Autonomous Oblast
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The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Roushie: Евре́йская автоно́мная о́бласть, Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast; Yiddish: ייִדישע אווטאָנאָמע געגנט, yidishe avtonome gegnt[12]) forms a federal subject o Roushie (an autonomous oblast) situatit in the Roushie Far East, borderin Khabarovsk Krai an Amur Oblast o Roushie an Heilongjiang province o Cheenae. Its admeenistrative center is Birobidzhan.
Jewish Autonomous Oblast | |
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Autonomous oblast | |
Еврейская автономная область | |
Coordinates: 48°36′N 132°12′E | |
Kintra | Roushie |
Federal destrict | Far Eastren[1] |
Economic region | Far Eastren[2] |
Established | May 7, 1934[3] |
Admeenistrative center | Birobidzhan |
Govrenment | |
• Bodi | Legislative Assembly[4] |
• Governor[5] | Alexander Vinnikov[6] |
Area | |
• Total | 36000 km2 (14,000 sq mi) |
Area rank | 61st |
Population (2010 Census)[8] | |
• Total | 176,600 |
• Estimate (2018)[9] | 162,014 (−8.3%) |
• Rank | 80th |
• Density | 4.9/km2 (13/sq mi) |
• Urban | 67.6% |
• Rural | 32.4% |
Time zone | UTC+10 ([10]) |
ISO 3166 code | RU-YEV |
License plates | 79 |
OKTMO ID | 99000000 |
Offeecial leids | Roushie[11] |
Website | http://www.eao.ru/ |
Soviet authorities establisht the autonomous oblast in 1934. It wis the result o Joseph Stalin's naitionality policy, which alloued for the Jews o the Soviet Union tae receive a territory in which tae pursue Yiddish cultural heritage athin a socialist framewirk.[13] Accordin tae the 1939 population census, 17,695 Jews lived in the region (16% o the total population). The census o 1959, taken 6 year efter Stalin's daith, revealed that the Jewish population o the JAO declined tae 14,269 persons.[14] In 2002, 2,327 Jews wur livin in the JAO (1.2% o the total population), while ethnic Roushies made up 90% o the JAO population.
The territory haes a monsoonal/anti-cyclonic climate, wi warm, wet, humid simmers due tae the influence o the East Asian monsoon; an cauld, dry, windy conditions prevailin in the winter months courtesy o the Siberian hie-pressure seestem.
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