Soviet authorities establisht the autonomous oblast in 1934. It wis the result o Joseph Stalin's naitionality policy, which alloued for the Jews o the Soviet Union tae receive a territory in which tae pursue Yiddish cultural heritage athin a socialist framewirk.[13] Accordin tae the 1939 population census, 17,695 Jews lived in the region (16% o the total population). The census o 1959, taken 6 year efter Stalin's daith, revealed that the Jewish population o the JAO declined tae 14,269 persons.[14]
In 2002, 2,327 Jews wur livin in the JAO (1.2% o the total population), while ethnic Roushies made up 90% o the JAO population.
The territory haes a monsoonal/anti-cyclonic climate, wi warm, wet, humid simmers due tae the influence o the East Asian monsoon; an cauld, dry, windy conditions prevailin in the winter months courtesy o the Siberian hie-pressure seestem.
↑Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №849 от 13 мая 2000 г. «О полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе». Вступил в силу 13 мая 2000 г. Опубликован: "Собрание законодательства РФ", No. 20, ст. 2112, 15 мая 2000 г. (President of the Russian Federation. Decree #849 of May 13, 2000 On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District. Effective as of May 13, 2000.).
↑Госстандарт Российской Федерации. №ОК 024-95 27 декабря 1995 г. «Общероссийский классификатор экономических регионов. 2. Экономические районы», в ред. Изменения №5/2001 ОКЭР. (Gosstandart of the Russian Federation. #OK 024-95 December 27, 1995 Russian Classification of Economic Regions. 2. Economic Regions, as amended by the Amendment #5/2001 OKER. ).
↑"Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 Juin 2011. Retrieved 19 Januar 2019.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
↑Offeecial ootthrou the Roushie Federation accordin tae Airticle 68.1 o the Constitution o Roushie.
↑In standard Yiddish: ייִדישע אױטאָנאָמע געגנט, yidishe oytonome gegnt.
↑"The National and State Structure". USSR '86 Yearbook. Novosti Press Agency. 1986.