POPULATION: @ 90,000
TRAVEL TIME FROM MOSCOW: 8 hour plane ride to Khabarovsk, 3 hour drive to Biro
TIME ZONE: 15 hours ahead of EST
ACCOMMODATIONS: Host Family

 

Birobidzhan is a small town 180 km west of Khabarovsk and the capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Winter is long and bitterly cold, by October the ground is usually snow covered. Summer typically is very humid and late summer brings a lot of rain. The Amur River runs along the south border and leads out to the Pacific Ocean.

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