Birobidzhan (Russian: Биробиджа́н, IPA:[bʲɪrəbʲɪˈdʐan]; Yiddish: ביראָבידזשאַן, Birobidzhan) is a town and the administrative centre of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway, near the China–Russia border.
As of the 2010 Census, its population is 75,413, and its official language is Yiddish.[6] Birobidzhan is named after the two largest rivers in the autonomous oblast: the Bira and the Bidzhan. The Bira, which lies to the east of the Bidzhan Valley,[14] flows through the town. Both rivers are tributaries of the Amur.
Historical population
Year
Pop.
±%
1926
831
—
1939
29,648
+3467.7%
1959
40,667
+37.2%
1970
55,724
+37.0%
1979
68,630
+23.2%
1989
83,667
+21.9%
2002
77,250
−7.7%
2010
75,413
−2.4%
2021
68,536
−9.1%
Source: Census data
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^ abCharter of Birobidzhan, Article 16
^Official website of Birobidzhan Archived October 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
^Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Economic and Social Measures of the Urban Okrugs and Urban Settlements in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast—the Town of Birobidzhan (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
^ abRussian 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.
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^Charter of Birobidzhan, Article 1
^Jewish Autonomous Oblast Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Permanent Population Estimate as of January 1, 2014 and the 2013 Average Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
^"Birobidzhan". Britannica Academic. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
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