En Name: | Lazarevo |
Ru Name: | Лазарево |
Coordinates: | 48.2408°N 132.4436°W |
Map Label Position: | right |
Federal Subject: | Jewish Autonomous Oblast |
Adm District Jur: | Leninsky District |
Inhabloc Cat: | Town |
Mun Admctr Of1: | Lazarevskoye Rural Settlement |
Mun Admctr Of1 Ref: | [1] |
Pop 2010Census: | 751 |
Lazarevo (Russian: Лазарево) is a small town in Leninsky District in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is the head of Lazarevskoye Rural Settlement.[1]
Lazarevo is located at an elevation of 140m (460feet) by a small mountain range north of the Amur River.[2] The town lies 86km (53miles) southwest of Birobidzhan, the administrative center of the autonomous oblast.[3] Its population is
Lazarevo is the birthplace of Soviet Arctic explorer Georgy Ushakov (1901 - 1963) who fully surveyed and charted Severnaya Zemlya for the first time in history.[4]