Birobidzhan is a town and the administrative centre of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway, near the China–Russia border.
Birobidzhan railway station
Birobidzhan (1950)
Jews of Birobidzhan in a 1933 "Peoples of the Soviet Union" postage stamp
A menorah dominating the main square in Birobidzhan
The Jewish Autonomous Oblast is a federal subject of Russia in the far east of the country, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast in Russia and Heilongjiang province in China. Its administrative center is the town of Birobidzhan.
A wintery Tunguska River near Nikolaevka village.
A child playing in the JAO.
The Chapel of St. Dmitry Donskoy.
A monument to the Volochaevsky battle.