Smidovich

Smidovich

Smidovich ( _ru. Смидович) is an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of Smidovichsky District of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. Population: 5,720 (2006 est.) [http://population-of.com/en/Russia/89/Smidovich/] ; 5,905 (2002 Census); 6,646 (1989 Census).

It is an early Jewish settlement, which was founded in 1928 [http://www.eao.ru/eng/?p=360] named after Pyotr Smidovich who, along with Mikhail Kalinin, came up with the idea to found the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. [http://map.rin.ru/cgi-bin/detals_e.pl?Region=evrei] As of 2004, Smidovich has an amateur Yiddish theater. [http://www.fjc.ru/communities/news.asp?AID=117464&cid=84435&NewsType=80052]

ee also

*Jews and Judaism in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast


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