File:Karta selʹskokhozi︠a︡ĭstvennykh raĭonov Evreĭskoĭ Avtonomnoĭ oblasti. LOC 2018692316.tif

English: The item presented here is from a collection of documents, photographs, maps, and printed works relating to the life and work of Professor Boris L'vovich Bruk, a well-known Russian agronomist who did much to study and develop agriculture in the Russian Far East and the central regions of Russia. In 1927, Bruk headed the expedition of the Committee on the Land Management of Working Jews (KOMZET) to the thinly populated Birobidzhan region to study the possible resettlement there of Jews from European Russia. The collection also includes the report issued by KOZMET after the conclusion of the expedition. The materials in the collection reflect the life and career of Bruk, his scientific activities, and the propaganda activities of the Soviet state relating to the introduction of modern agricultural technologies into the peasant economy. They also provide information on the nature, climate, and economy of the Birobidzhan region. Located in the Russian Far East near the border with China, the Birobidzhan region was established in 1928 by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin as the Jewish Autonomous Region of the Soviet Union. The collection is preserved in the Jewish Autonomous Region Museum of Regional History and Folklife in Birobidzhan and was digitized for the Meeting of Frontiers digital library project in the early 2000s. World Digital Library.