Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Also known as JAO
federal subject of Russia
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The Jewish Autonomous Oblast is a federal subject (administrative region) of Russia located in the Far East. It was established in the 1930s as a designated territory for Jewish settlement, though today it has a relatively small Jewish population compared to other Russian regions.
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- www.eao.ru
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- Dialing code
- 426
- Licence plate code
- 79
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The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) 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.
The JAO was designated by a Soviet official decree in 1928, and officially established in 1934. At its height, in the late 1940s, the Jewish population in the region peaked around 46,000–50,000, approximately 25% of its population. Since then, the share of Jews steadily declined, and according to the 2021 Russian census, there were only 837 ethnic Jews left in the JAO (0.6%).
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