The Gosplan, the Soviet Commissariat for Economic Affairs, has decided to allocate 10 million roubles for industrial enterprises and 4½ million roubles for agricultural colonisation in Bureya (Biro-Bidjan).
The statement embodying the decision reaffirms that Bureya must become a Jewish autonomous unit at latest by the end of 1933, and that 14,000 Jews must be settled there in the course of 1932.
The Economic Commissariat has decided at the same time to send a Commission of experts to Bureya to investigate the possibility of generating electric power by utilising the Rivers Biro and Bidjan.
The Leningrad Geological oil Research Institute has allocated 25,000 roubles to cover the cost of sending a geological investigating commission to Bureya.
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