Professor Boris Bruk, one of the leading agronomists in Russia, who in 1927 started the plan of Jewish settlement in the Bureya region in Siberia, has been banished to Kazakstan, near Almaata, where Trotsky was exiled before he was sent out of the country.
Professor Bruk was arrested in spite of the fact that he has been for the last four years the Chief Agronomist of the Government Commission for Jewish Land Settlement (Comzet).
Professor Bruk delivered the report on the possibilities of Jewish settlement in Bureya, which resulted in the plan being taken up by the Comzet. He also wrote a book on the conditions in Bureya, and he has been throughout the most prominent advocate of the Bureya Jewish settlement plan, in opposition to those, like M. Larin, who have been urging that Bureya is not of great practical value for Jewish settlement.
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