Bira, Russia
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Bira (Russian: Бира) is an urban-type settlement in Obluchensky District of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia.[1] [2] Population: 4,176 (2006 est.);[3] 4,311 (2002 Census); 4,111 (1989 Census).
[edit] History
The railway station of Bira was built in 1908. In 1937, a larger railway station and a depot were constructed.[4]
In 2006, the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Mordechai Scheiner, visited Bira to inspect local cemeteries and gather information about the Jews buried there in the years prior to World War II.
