Background

This is a list of Jews that lived in the Amur Region of the Russian Empire.  The Amur Region, in Russian it was called the Priamursky Krai, was a peripheral territory in the east of the Russian Empire; the general name for the territories of the Amur River basin, i.e. the southern and middle parts of the Primorsky, Amur and Transbaikal regions and the adjacent areas of the Chinese Empire. Administratively, it was basically the same as the Amur Governorate-General.  This list was published in the "Priamurskie Vedomosti" newspaper, issues 1877-1879.  This newspaper was started in 1894 and appeared three times weekly so the issues 1877-1879 likely appeared sometime in 1906. There are 427 entries in this database.

This database includes the fields:  

• Number (of the original list)
• Surname
• Given Name
• Patronymic
• Father’s Name
• Estate-What class of society the person belonged to i.e. bourgeois etc.
• Place of Registration-The name of the place where the person was officially registered with the authorities as a residend.
• Place of Residence-The name of the place where they actually lived
• Comments
• Acknowledgements

Thank you to Yasha Bykhovsky for donating the original file to Russian Research Division of JewishGen.  Thank you to Grigory Sladkevich for his expert transcription.

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