Lazarevo, Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Lazarevo (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 m by a small mountain range north of the Amur River. The town lies 86 km southwest of Birobidzhan, the administrative center of the autonomous oblast. Its population is

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.