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A well-known St. Petersburg writer and journalist Alexander Melikhov, winner of the Writers’ Union of St. Petersburg and the Petersburg PEN, in his book “Birobidzhan – The Promised Land” tells of the creation of the Far East, the Jewish Autonomous Region – one of the most daring Soviet resettlement projects and one the saddest of Jewish national utopias. Picking up the theme of ” Birobidzhan myth” in the novel “Red Zion,” dedicated to the history of the formation of the Jewish Autonomous Region and the fate of its creators and inhabitants, Alexander Melikhov continued his research in his nonfiction book “Birobidzhan – The Promised Land”.
