'''Smidovich''' ({{langx|ru|Смидович}}; {{langx|yi|סמידאוויטש}}) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Smidovichsky District of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. Population: {{ru-census|p2010=5,120|p2002=5,905|p1989=6,646}}
==History== It is an early Jewish settlement, which was founded in 1928<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eao.ru/eng/?p=360|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923071352/www.eao.ru/eng/?p=360|archive-date=2023-09-23|title=ОФИЦИАЛЬНЫЙ ПОРТАЛ ОРГАНОВ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ ВЛАСТИ ЕВРЕЙСКОЙ АВТОНОМНОЙ ОБЛАСТИ}}</ref> named after Pyotr Smidovich who, along with Mikhail Kalinin, came up with the idea to found the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://map.rin.ru/cgi-bin/detals_e.pl?Region=evrei|title = Map of Russia region - Jewish AO - short information political economical geographical map of russia and regions of russia weather in russia}}</ref>
==Climate== Like most of the Amur Basin, Smidovich has an extreme humid continental climate (Köppen ''Dwb''), featuring very warm and rainy summers contrasting with frigid and very dry winters.
{{Weather box |metric first=yes |single line=yes |location=Smidovich |Jan high C=-17.9 |Feb high C=-12.4 |Mar high C=-1.5 |Apr high C=10.1 |May high C=18.7 |Jun high C=24.5 |Jul high C=27 |Aug high C=24.7 |Sep high C=18.6 |Oct high C=9.3 |Nov high C=-4.6 |Dec high C=-15.5
|Jan mean C=-22.7 |Feb mean C=-18.3 |Mar mean C=-7.7 |Apr mean C=4.3 |May mean C=12.1 |Jun mean C=18.2 |Jul mean C=21.4 |Aug mean C=19.6 |Sep mean C=13.2 |Oct mean C=4.1 |Nov mean C=-9.1 |Dec mean C=-19.8
|Jan low C=-27.5 |Feb low C=-24.2 |Mar low C=-13.8 |Apr low C=-1.5 |May low C=5.5 |Jun low C=11.9 |Jul low C=15.9 |Aug low C=14.6 |Sep low C=7.9 |Oct low C=-1 |Nov low C=-13.6 |Dec low C=-24.1
|precipitation colour=green |Jan precipitation mm=9 |Feb precipitation mm=8 |Mar precipitation mm=16 |Apr precipitation mm=40 |May precipitation mm=56 |Jun precipitation mm=92 |Jul precipitation mm=135 |Aug precipitation mm=141 |Sep precipitation mm=89 |Oct precipitation mm=42 |Nov precipitation mm=20 |Dec precipitation mm=14
|source 1 = ''Climate-Data.org''<ref>{{cite web|title=Climate: Смидович - Climate graph, Temperature graph, Climate table|url=http://en.climate-data.org/location/53659/|publisher=Climate-Data.org|accessdate=25 August 2013}}</ref> }}
==Sport== The bandy club Urozhay<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://www.rusbandy.ru/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.rusbandy.ru/%26biw%3D1093%26bih%3D552|title=Федерация хоккея с мячом России}}</ref> played in the Russian Bandy Supreme League, the second highest division, until 2015–16. Its home arena was the Lokomotiv Stadium.
==See also== *History of the Jews in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Jewish Autonomous Oblast}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2013}}
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Category:Urban-type settlements in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Category:Historic Jewish communities