Lazarevo, Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Lazarevo () is a small town in Leninsky District in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is the head of Lazarevskoye Rural Settlement. Geography. Lazarevo is located at an elevation of by a small mountain range north of the Amur River. The town lies southwest of Birobidzhan, the administrative center of the autonomous oblast. Its population is History. Lazarevo is the birthplace of Soviet Arctic explorer Georgy Ushakov (1901 - 1963) who fully surveyed and charted Severnaya Zemlya for the first time in history.