Lazarevo,_Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast

Lazarevo, Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Lazarevo, Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Town in Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia

For other places with the same name, see Lazarevo.

Lazarevo (Russian: Лазарево) is a small town in Leninsky District in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is the head of Lazarevskoye Rural Settlement.[1]

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Geography

Lazarevo is located at an elevation of 140 meters (460 ft) by a small mountain range north of the Amur River.[4] The town lies 86 kilometers (53 mi) southwest of Birobidzhan, the administrative center of the autonomous oblast.[5] Its population is 751 (2010 Russian census);[2]

History

Lazarevo is the birthplace of Soviet Arctic explorer Georgy Ushakov (1901 - 1963) who fully surveyed and charted Severnaya Zemlya for the first time in history.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Закон Еврейской автономной области от 26 ноября 2003 года № 231-ОЗ «О статусе и границе Ленинского муниципального района»(Law of the Jewish Autonomous Region on November 26, 2003 № 231-OZ, "On the status of the border and Leninsky municipal district")
  2. [2]
    Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  3. [3]
    "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  4. [4]
    GoogleEarth
  5. [5]
    "Lazarevo". Mapcarta. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  6. [6]
    Biography of G. A. Ushakov Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine at Polar World.
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