A new five-year plan for development of Biro-Bidjan, autonomous Jewish region in the Soviet Far East, was announced today by Boris Trotsky, deputy president of the Government Commission for Settling Jews on the Land.
The plan, as presented by Mr. Trotsky at a press conference here, calls for settlement of 100,000 Jews in the territory during the specified period, bringing the total population to 125,000. Of this number, 30,000 individuals or 6,500 families, will be placed on collective farms.
Other features of the plan include establishment of a university, a publishing centre, music and art academies, a museum and a Jewish theatre, to make of the territory a centre of Jewish Soviet culture.
Mr. Trotsky said the plan aimed to create conditions to assist development of the territory as a national Jewish region, accelerate economic development, improve housing conditions and set up central district governments.
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