Smidovich (russian: Смидович; yi, סמידאוויטש) is an
urban locality (an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
) and the
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...
of
Smidovichsky District
Smidovichsky District (russian: Смидо́вичский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #982-OZ and municipalLaw #228-OZ district (raion), one of the five in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the autono ...
of the
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO; russian: Евре́йская автоно́мная о́бласть, (ЕАО); yi, ייִדישע אװטאָנאָמע געגנט, ; )In standard Yiddish: , ''Yidishe Oytonome Gegnt'' is a federal subject ...
,
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
. Population:
History
It is an early Jewish settlement, which was founded in 1928 named after
Pyotr Smidovich
Pyotr Germogenovich Smidovich (russian: Пётр Гермогенович Смидович; 19 May 1874 – 16 April 1935), was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician.
Born in to a noble family of the Suchekomanty coat of arms, he joined ...
who, along with
Mikhail Kalinin
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (russian: link=no, Михаи́л Ива́нович Кали́нин ; 3 June 1946), known familiarly by Soviet citizens as "Kalinych", was a Soviet politician and Old Bolshevik revolutionary. He served as head of s ...
, came up with the idea to found the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.
Climate
Like most of the Amur Basin, Smidovich has an extreme
humid continental climate
A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...
(
Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...
''Dwb''), featuring very warm and rainy summers contrasting with frigid and very dry winters.
Sport
The
bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...
club
Urozhay
KhK Urozhay (russian: ХК Урожай) is a bandy club in Smidovich, Russia. The club was playing in the Russian Bandy Supreme League
Russian Bandy Supreme League (russian: Первенство России среди команд Высше ...
played in the
Russian Bandy Supreme League
Russian Bandy Supreme League (russian: Первенство России среди команд Высшей лиги) is the second tier of Russian bandy, below Russian Bandy Super League. In the 2016–17 season, 23 teams competed in three gro ...
, the second highest division, until 2015–16. Its home arena was the
Lokomotiv Stadium.
See also
*
History of the Jews in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
The history of the Jews in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast ( JAO), Russia, began with the early settlements of 1928.
Yiddish and Russian are the two official languages of the JAO. According to Peter Matthiessen, The Birds of Heaven,p20-21, “Accord ...
References
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Urban-type settlements in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Historic Jewish communities