The appropriation of the Soviet government to assist impoverished Jews to settle on the land in 1929 will total 3,100,000 roubles, by a decision of the administrative territorial commission of the Wzik, Central Executive Committee.
Two million one hundred thousand roubles of this amount are taken from the Soviet government budget, while 1,000,000 rubles will be provided by the Soviet agricultural bank.
The commission also announced today that the area of 109,000 hectares in Crimea will be turned over for Jewish land settlement on March 1.
The administrative territorial commission at its session here yesterday also decided to establish a second “Jewish national region” in the district of New Zlatopol, region of Zaporozhie, Ukraine.
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