Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Its admeenistrative center is Birobidzhan.

Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Autonomous oblast
Еврейская автономная область
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Coordinates: 48°36′N 132°12′E / 48.600°N 132.200°E / 48.600; 132.200 132°12′E / 48.600°N 132.200°E / 48.600; 132.200
Kintra	Roushie
Federal destrict	Far Eastren
Economic region	Far Eastren
Established	May 7, 1934
Admeenistrative center	Birobidzhan
Govrenment
• Bodi	Legislative Assembly
• Governor	Alexander Vinnikov
Area
• Total	36000 km2 (14,000 sq mi)
Area rank	61st
Population  (2010 Census)
• Total	176,600
• Estimate  (2018)	162,014 (−8.3%)
• Rank	80th
• Density	4.9/km2 (13/sq mi)
• Urban	67.6%
• Rural	32.4%
Time zone	UTC+10 ()
ISO 3166 code	RU-YEV
License plates	79
OKTMO ID	99000000
Offeecial leids	Roushie
Website	http://www.eao.ru/

Soviet authorities establisht the autonomous oblast in 1934. It wis the result o Joseph Stalin's naitionality policy, which alloued for the Jews o the Soviet Union tae receive a territory in which tae pursue Yiddish cultural heritage athin a socialist framewirk. Accordin tae the 1939 population census, 17,695 Jews lived in the region (16% o the total population). The census o 1959, taken 6 year efter Stalin's daith, revealed that the Jewish population o the JAO declined tae 14,269 persons. In 2002, 2,327 Jews wur livin in the JAO (1.2% o the total population), while ethnic Roushies made up 90% o the JAO population.

The territory haes a monsoonal/anti-cyclonic climate, wi warm, wet, humid simmers due tae the influence o the East Asian monsoon; an cauld, dry, windy conditions prevailin in the winter months courtesy o the Siberian hie-pressure seestem.