Lazarevo, Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Lazarevo (Russian: Лазарево) is a small town in Leninsky District in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is the head of Lazarevskoye Rural Settlement.
Geography
Lazarevo is located at an elevation of 140 meters (460 ft) by a small mountain range north of the Amur River. The town lies 86 kilometers (53 mi) southwest of Birobidzhan, the administrative center of the autonomous oblast. Its population is 751 (2010 Russian census);
History
Lazarevo is the birthplace of Soviet Arctic explorer Georgy Ushakov (1901 - 1963) who fully surveyed and charted Severnaya Zemlya for the first time in history.
References
- ^ Закон Еврейской автономной области от 26 ноября 2003 года № 231-ОЗ «О статусе и границе Ленинского муниципального района»(Law of the Jewish Autonomous Region on November 26, 2003 № 231-OZ, "On the status of the border and Leninsky municipal district")
- ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
- ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ^ GoogleEarth
- ^ "Lazarevo". Mapcarta. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
- ^ Biography of G. A. Ushakov Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine at Polar World.
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