PAVLODARSKAYA OBLAST

Jewish Organizations in Pavlodar City "Hesed Rachel" Director Tatyana Slivinskaya Jewish Community Center Director Irina Tveritneva Jewish Cultural Center "Merkas" Director Faina Svechinskaya Sokhnut Coordinator Violetta Milchenko +7 (3182) 323-354 Ulpan Head Tatiana Begagolina Jewish Sunday school Director Faina Svechinskaya Youth Club Head Olga Merinova

  The administrative center is Pavlodar City.

  The territory of Pavlodarskaya oblast is about 116 thousand square kilometers. About a million people live there.

  Pavlodar City is a railway junction. The population of the city is about 350 thousand people. The city is a very important industry center, there is refinery, aluminum plant, tractor, foundry and forge, shipbuilding and ship repairing plants, food and light industry.
  Near Pavlodar there is Irtysh-Karaganda canal.

  There are 2 Universities, drama theatre, Regional and Art Museums.
The City was founded in 1720.

  Jews live all over the territory of the oblast.

  Since 1999 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC, "Joint") cooperates with Ust-Kamonogorsk Jewish national organizations. Welfare Center "Hesed" sponsored by "Joint" started working here in 2000.