Freidorff Jewish Autonomous Region in Crimea Has No Conveniences for Its Own Administrative Institut

The centre of the new Freidorff Jewish autonomous region set up recently in the Crimea is not situated in Freidorff itself, but in the old German section of the Tatar-German village Montanei, about a kilometre and a half away from Freidorff, and others of the Freidorff administrative institutions are housed at Dzelal, a German village about three kilometres away, the Yiddish Communist organ “Emess” writes. That, it says, is because Freidorff is a small scattered settlement which has no conveniences for housing the administrative machinery of the region. Montanei, too, it says, is congested, without proper breathing room. Several old houses and even some stables have been pressed into service for housing the regional institutions. A few new houses have been built, but on the whole the settlement is only just beginning to grow, to be able to meet the increasing demands of a regional centre. It is planned, the paper concludes, to join together all three settlements, Freidorff, Montanel and Djelal, and make of them one large regional centre, and action along these lines will be taken during the course of the present year.