Jewish Autonomous Oblast

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (, Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast; , yidishe avtonome gegntIn standard Yiddish: , yidishe oytonome gegnt.) 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.

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. 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.
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.

 Climate 
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.

 Admeenistrative diveesions 

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Category:Jewish Roushie an Soviet history
Category:Manchurie
Category:Roushie-speakin kintras an territories
Category:Yiddish cultur
Category:States an territories established in 1934