AGRICULTURAL JEWISH COLONIZATION IN USSR By the end of 1920s, there were 160 Jewish selsovets (rural councils) in Ukraine, 29 in the Crimean peninsula (Crimea did not belong to Ukraine at the time), and 27 in Belarus. In Ukraine, three Jewish national regions were created: Kalinindorf, Stalindorf and Novo-Zlatopol. Crimea had two: Freidorf and Larindorf. The Jewish settlers were given around 5,000 square kilometres of land (not counting Birobidzhan). From 1925 to 1937 only 126,000 were resettled, and only 53,000 of them stayed In1938 there were 86 Jewish kolkhozes in the Crimea 1-Several Jewish farmers from the ‘Roiter Oktyabr’ colony. Kalinindorf region, Ukraine, mid 1920s 2- Collective farmers from the Frayveg (Free Way) kolkhoz in Larindorf, Crimea, on their way to an election meeting in 1938 3-Yehuda Pen (1854-1937) : Jewish Bielorussian painter : The Jewish Kolkhozian (1925)
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