Blagoslovennoye (;
) is a
rural locality
In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically describ ...
(a ''
selo'') in
Oktyabrsky District of the
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) is a federal subject of Russia in the far east of the country, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast in Russia and Heilongjiang province in China. Its administrative center is the town of Birobidzhan.
...
,
Russia
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. According to the
2010 Census, its population was 869.
The village was established in 1871 by Korean settlers who had fled from their country into
Primorye
Primorsky Krai, informally known as Primorye, is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, part of the Far Eastern Federal District in the Russian Far East. The city of Vladivostok on the southern coast of the krai is its administrative center, an ...
due to famine and been resettled at Russian state expense in the southernmost, uninhabited portion of
Amur Oblast
Amur Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya rivers in the Russian Far East. The oblast borders Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the south.
The administrati ...
, three ''
verst
A verst (; ) is an obsolete Russian unit of length, defined as 500 sazhen. This makes a verst equal to .
Plurals and variants
In the English language, ''verst'' is singular with the normal plural ''versts''. In Russian, the nominative singul ...
''
s from the northern bank of the
Amur River
The Amur River () or Heilong River ( zh, s=黑龙江) is a perennial river in Northeast Asia, forming the natural border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China (historically the Outer and Inner Manchuria). The Amur ''proper'' is ...
. Blagoslovennoye remained populated by Koreans until 1937, when they were
deported
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to Kazakhstan, like all Korean settlers in the Soviet Far East.
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References
Rural localities in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Koryo-saram communities
Korean communities in Russia