Amurzet
Sign in to saveAmurzet (; ) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Oktyabrsky District of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located from Birobidzhan. Population:
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Place details
- Locality
- Амурзет
- Region
- Еврейская автономная область
- Country
- Россия
- Population
- 5,213
- Timezone
- Asia/Vladivostok
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Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Amurzet
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Rural locality
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census_ref
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Амурзет
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Population
- 3953
- Elevation
- 70
- Time zone
- UTC+10:00
- Capital of
- Oktyabrsky District
- Dialing code
- 42665
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- inception
- 1928-01-01
- postal code
- 679230
- native label
- אַמורזעט
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Jewish community
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Amurzet (; ) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Oktyabrsky District of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located from Birobidzhan. Population:
==History== It was founded in 1929 as a large collective farm. Specifically, Amurzet has a history of Jewish settlement in the JAO since its inception. Concerning the period 1929 through 1939, Amurzet was the center of Jewish settlement for the area south of Birobidzhan.
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