1934-75 Jewish Autonomous Region, four covers or cards incl. 1934 cover and card to Canada, with Tikhonkaya-v (railway station for Birobidzhan), 1942 card franked with Soviet 20k green, tied by a bilingual (Yiddish and Russian) "Birobidzhan EAO" cds, sent to Tashkent; also cover from Obluchye (a town in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Amur 159 kilometers west of Birobidzhan) sent in 1975 to Cuba, fine lot. Birobidzhan is a town and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. It is located on the Trans-Siberian railway, close to the border with the People's Republic of China. It was granted urban-type settlement status in 1928 and town status in 1937 (Image)

Est.$300