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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...