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| | Yiddish Song Archive lyrics,chords,pdf sheetmusic - Jozef der Gasnsinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The region is bounded on the south by China (Heilongjinag prov.) and on the north by the Bureya and Hinggan (Khingan) mts., which yield gold, tin, iron ore, and graphite. |
 | | Mining, agriculture (chiefly on the Amur plain), lumbering, and light manufacturing are the major economic activities. |
 | | Formed in 1928 to give Soviet Jews a home territory and to increase settlement along the vulnerable borders of the Soviet Far East, the area was raised to the status of an autonomous region in 1934. |
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