Smidovich (; ) is an urban locality (an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

) and the

administrative center An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...

Smidovichsky District Smidovichsky District () is an administrativeLaw #982-OZ and municipalLaw #228-OZ district (raion), one of the five in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the autonomous oblast and borders Khabarovsk Krai (via the ...

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 Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

. Population:

History

It is an early Jewish settlement, which was founded in 1928 named after

Pyotr Smidovich Pyotr Germogenovich Smidovich (; 19 May Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/> O.S. 7 May1874 – 16 April 1935), was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet Union">Soviet politician. Born into a noble family of the Suchekomanty coat ...

who, along with

Mikhail Kalinin Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (, ; 3 June 1946) was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the first chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) from 1938 until his resignation in 1946. From ...

, came up with the idea to found the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

Climate

Like most of the Amur Basin, Smidovich has an extreme

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...

(

Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (1951–2014), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author ...

''Dwb''), featuring very warm and rainy summers contrasting with frigid and very dry winters.

Sport

The

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The playin ...

club Urozhay played in the

Russian Bandy Supreme League Russian Bandy Supreme League or the Vysshaya Liga () is the second tier of Russian bandy, below Russian Bandy Super League. In the 2016–17 season, 23 teams competed in three groups. In the 2022/23 season, 22 teams competed in four groups. Th ...

, the second highest division, until 2015–16. Its home arena was the

Lokomotiv Stadium Lokomotiv Stadium may refer to: Belarus * Lokomotiv Stadium (Minsk) Bulgaria * Lokomotiv Stadium (Gorna Oryahovitsa) * Lokomotiv Stadium (Mezdra) * Lokomotiv Stadium (Plovdiv) * Lokomotiv Stadium (Sofia) * Lokomotiv Stadium (Stara Zagora) Ge ...

References

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History

Climate

Sport

See also

References