Lazarevo
Лазарево
Town
Location of Lazarevo
Lazarevo is located in Russia
Lazarevo
Lazarevo
Location of Lazarevo
Lazarevo is located in Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Lazarevo
Lazarevo
Lazarevo (Jewish Autonomous Oblast)
Coordinates: 48°14′27″N 132°26′37″E / 48.24083°N 132.44361°E / 48.24083; 132.44361
CountryRussia
Federal subjectJewish Autonomous Oblast
Administrative districtLeninsky District[1]
Population
 (2010 Census)[2]
 • Total751
 • Capital ofLazarevskoye Rural Settlement[1]
Time zoneUTC+10 (MSK+7 Edit this on Wikidata[3])
OKTMO ID99610455101

Lazarevo (Russian: Лазарево) is a small town in Leninsky District in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is the head of Lazarevskoye Rural Settlement.[1]

Geography

Lazarevo is located at an elevation of 140 meters (460 ft) by a small mountain range north of the Amur River.[4] The town lies 86 kilometers (53 mi) southwest of Birobidzhan, the administrative center of the autonomous oblast.[5] Its population is 751 (2010 Census);[2]

History

Lazarevo is the birthplace of Soviet Arctic explorer Georgy Ushakov (1901 - 1963) who fully surveyed and charted Severnaya Zemlya for the first time in history.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Закон Еврейской автономной области от 26 ноября 2003 года № 231-ОЗ «О статусе и границе Ленинского муниципального района»(Law of the Jewish Autonomous Region on November 26, 2003 № 231-OZ, "On the status of the border and Leninsky municipal district")
  2. 1 2 Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  3. ↑ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  4. ↑ GoogleEarth
  5. ↑ "Lazarevo". Mapcarta. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  6. ↑ Biography of G. A. Ushakov Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine at Polar World.
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