Simplify the following text for a Grade 13 native English-speaking person.
Original: Apart from the ( ITO ) , within the USSR there was also a Territorialist effort in Ukraine , the Crimea and then in a region surrounding Birobidzhan , where a Jewish Autonomous Region was established in 1934 .
Simplified: Apart from the ( ITO ) , within the USSR there was also a Territorialist effort in Ukraine , the Crimea and then in a region around Birobidzhan , where a Jewish Autonomous Region was started in 1934 .