Valdgeym

Waldheim (Russian Валдгейм, Waldgeim; Yiddish Waldhejm ) is a village ( selo ) in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Russia) with 1912 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) ..

The settlement is situated about 15 kilometers south of the administrative center of the oblast ( at the same time the Rajons ) Birobidzhan on the left bank of the Bira. The village is home to an eponymous rural community ( selskoje posselenige ) to which further four villages include: Aeroport (13 km south-southeast, there is the small airfield Birobidzhan Youzhny, ICAO code UHHB ), Krasny Vostok (6 km south), Pronkino ( 9 km south ) and Scholty Jar (15 km south-southeast ).

Waldheim was the first Jewish settlement in the area. It was built on the instructions of the Soviet government in 1928, not far from the regional center Tichonkaja, which was renamed a few years later in Birobidzhan. The Settlers of Waldheim received the order to begin the reclamation of unused and sparsely populated stretch of land.