- Source: Lazarevo, Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Lazarevo (Russian: Лазарево) is a small town in Leninsky District in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is the head of Lazarevskoye Rural Settlement.
Geography
Lazarevo is located at an elevation of 140 meters (460 ft) by a small mountain range north of the Amur River.
The town lies 86 kilometers (53 mi) southwest of Birobidzhan, the administrative center of the autonomous oblast. Its population is 751 (2010 Census);
History
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.
