The All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union, which is now meeting here, has ratified the decision adopted by its Presidium on September 30th. to create a Jewish national territorial unit in Bureya by the end of 1933.
With this ratification the decree enters into full force. The Far Eastern Regional Executive Committee and the Comzet are instructed in the decree to prepare and submit to the Council of People’s Commissariats a plan of economic and cultural measures for the further development of the Bureya region.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
