Smidovich

Smidovich (Russian Смидович ) is an urban-type settlement in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Russia) with 5120 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The place is located in the Amurniederung about 70 km east-southeast of the crow Oblastverwaltungszentrums Birobidzhan and about 100 kilometers west of the city of Khabarovsk. A few kilometers north flows in the Great ( Bolshoi in), a right tributary of the Tunguska river source Urmi.

The settlement is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Smidovich.

History

The town was created in 1913 related to the establishment of the Amureisenbahn Kuenga to Khabarovsk, the last section of the Trans-Siberian railway on the territory of the Russian Empire, as there was started the construction of a named after the nearby river in station. The section was 1916 in regular operation.

With the establishment of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in 1928, the station settlement in one of the first points of Jewish settlement in the area was. 1934, the place the status of an urban-type settlement and was named after the Soviet state and party functionaries Pyotr Smidovich ( 1874-1935 ) named, among others, a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Central Control Commission of the CPSU and one of the originators of the idea of ​​a Jewish autonomy in the Far East of Russia.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

The settlement is the center of an agricultural area with cultivation of cereals, potatoes, vegetables, cattle and pigs. A until the 1990s based in Smidovich work for vehicle equipment is not operating.

In Smidovich is the important stage in the Trans-Siberian Railway ( Route 8422 km from Moscow). North of the settlement of the highway M 58 Amur from Khabarovsk to Chita is bypassed, part of the transcontinental rail link.