Earth:Tselina
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Short description: Soviet term for undeveloped fertile lands
Tselina or virgin lands (Russian: целина́, lit. 'whole lands'; Ukrainian: цілина́) is an umbrella term for underdeveloped, scarcely populated, high-fertility lands often covered with the chernozem soil.[1] The lands were mostly located in the steppes of the Volga region, Northern Kazakhstan and Southern Siberia.[2]
The term became widely used in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the Soviet Union during the Virgin Lands campaign (Russian: Освое́ние целины́, romanized: Osvoyeniye tseliny, lit. 'reclamation of tselina') - a state development and resettlement campaign to turn the lands into a major agriculture producing region.[citation needed]
See also
- Chernozem
- Tselinograd
References
- ↑ "Целина - это... Что такое Целина?" (in ru). Словари и энциклопедии на Академике. https://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/bse/148515/%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0.
- ↑ "Целина" (in Russian). The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Moscow. OCLC 14476314. http://www.endic.ru/enc_sovet/Celina-97624.html. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
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