Back Bakir torpaqlar layihəsi AZ Усвояване на целината Bulgarian Campagne des terres vierges French नई भूमि अभियान HI Szűzföld-program Hungarian Kampanye Tanah-Tanah Dara ID Campagna delle terre vergini Italian Тың игеру KK 처녀지 개간 운동 Korean Neskarto zemju kampaņa Latvian/Lettish
The Virgin Lands campaign (Russian: Освое́ние целины́, romanized: Osvoyeniye tseliny, lit. 'reclamation of tselina'; Kazakh: Тың игеру, [təŋ ɪjɡeɾʏw]) was Nikita Khrushchev's 1953 plan to dramatically boost the Soviet Union's agricultural production in order to alleviate the food shortages plaguing the Soviet populace.
Hundreds of thousands of young volunteers settled and farmed areas of Western Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan and considerably changed its demographics. While the scheme was initially successful, later the output decreased considerably,[1][2] and the campaign had led to an environmental disaster for Kazakhstan steppe due to significant soil erosion.[3]
- ^ Tompson 1995, p. 174.
- ^ Frank A. Durgin, Jr., "Frank A. Durgin, Jr.", Soviet Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Jan. 1962), pp. 255-280, JSTOR 149136
- ^ Environmental consequences of Khrushchev’s Virgin Land Campaign in Kazakhstan (1950s–1960s)