Smidovich

Smidovich
Smidovich (Смидович) is an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of Smidovichsky District of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. Population: 5,720 (2006 est.) ; 5,905 (2002 Census); 6,646 (1989 Census).

It is an early Jewish settlement, which was founded in 1928 named after Pyotr Smidovich who, along with Mikhail Kalinin, came up with the idea to found the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. As of 2004, Smidovich has an amateur Yiddish theater.

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