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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, March 11 (Itar-Tass) — Train traffic has been restored on one of two rail tracks in the Jewish Autonomous Region after two freight trains’ collision, the Russian Railways company (RZD) told ...

"The highway bridge across the Amur between Blagoveshchensk and China’s Heihe and the railway bridge to China from the Jewish Autonomous Region that have been constructed over the past two years, ...