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    The Virgin Lands campaign (Russian: Освое́ние целины́, romanized: Osvoyeniye tseliny, lit. 'reclamation of tselina'; Kazakh: Тың игеру, [təŋ ɪjɡeɾʏw])...
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    Tselina or virgin lands (Russian: целина́, lit. 'whole lands'; Ukrainian: цілина́, romanized: tsilina) is an umbrella term for underdeveloped, scarcely...
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  • of foodstuffs for the general population. To meet this goal, the Virgin Lands Campaign was established under Nikita Khrushchev, which set aside ten million...
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    programs, including the Baykonur Cosmodrome. The initially successful Virgin Lands Campaign soon became unproductive and failed to solve the growing Soviet...
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    extensively transformed into wheat-growing farmland as part of the Soviet Virgin Lands campaign during the 1950s, which resulted in the decline of many bird species...
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    unrealistic ideas such as planting corn in Siberia. During the Virgin Lands Campaign in the mid-1950s, many tracts of land were opened to farming in...
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    In 1954, Northern Kazakh SSR oblasts became a territory of the Virgin Lands Campaign, in order to turn the region into a second grain producer for the...
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    superior performance in labour over two years connected with the Virgin Lands Campaign started in 1954 by Nikita Khrushchev to cultivate 36,000,000 ha...
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    especially Ukrainians, migrated to Pavlodar in Nikita Khrushchev's Virgin Lands Campaign. The Bayanaul National Park, a protected area of the Kazakh Uplands...
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  • Alexey Uzorov and tractor driver Anna Zalogina on the background of Virgin Lands Campaign in Kazakhstan. Part of Shostakovich's score was used as the basis...
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    Brezhnev, and Mikhail Gorbachev, many reforms (such as Khrushchev's Virgin Lands Campaign) were enacted as attempts to defray the inefficiencies of the Stalinist...
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  • city was designated the administrative and cultural center of the Virgin Lands Campaign in the 1950s, with the aim of turning the region into a second grain...
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    economy. In 1953, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev initiated the Virgin Lands Campaign designed to turn the traditional pasturelands of Kazakhstan into...
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    agriculture, Khrushchev's proposals were broader and included the Virgin Lands Campaign, under which hundreds of thousands of young volunteers would settle...
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    schemes Transmigration program Turkish settlers in Northern Cyprus Virgin Lands Campaign Colonialism Gentrification Imperialism Displacement Oregon Trail...
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  • pamphlet, with the original commentary by Nicolaevsky. The Anti-Stalin Campaign and International Communism: A Selection of Documents, a 1956 book (published...
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    of Crimea Seven-year plan Maize fever Virgin Lands campaign Anti-Party Group Sovnarkhozy Anti-religious campaign 1961 monetary reform Novocherkassk massacre...
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    sunflowers, flax, and rice. Agricultural lands in Kazakhstan were depleted of their nutrients during the Virgin Lands Campaign during the Soviet era. This continues...
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  • starting with the Virgin Lands Campaign during the Soviet era. Because the precautionary measures taken to preserve soil quality when the campaign began were...
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    shift in the 1950s and 1960s, when, as part of Nikita Khrushchev's Virgin Lands Campaign, hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens relocated to the Kazakh...
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    Paul Alexandrovich of Russia. After 1955, the Soviet Government's Virgin Lands Campaign provided the impetus for the rapid growth and development of modern...
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    After the war, the Virgin Lands Campaign was started in 1953. This was led by Nikita Khrushchev, with the goal of developing the vast lands of the republic...
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  • (Oxford University Press US, 1989: ISBN 0-19-504262-X), p. 53. Virgin Lands Campaign This article includes content derived from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia...
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  • Zodiac Virgin Lands campaign, a Russian initiative Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, an 1950 book by Henry Nash Smith Virgin Land (album)...
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    more Russians arrived in the years 1953–1965, during the so-called Virgin Lands Campaign of Soviet general secretary Nikita Khrushchev. Still more settlers...
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    and industry of Tajikistan. During 1957–58 Nikita Khrushchev's Virgin Lands Campaign focused attention on Tajikistan, where living conditions, education...
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    several notable campaigns of targeted non-penal workforce transfer. Twenty-five-thousanders NKVD labor columns Virgin Lands campaign Baku oil industry...
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  • continued throughout the Soviet period, and Nikita Khrushchev's virgin lands campaign during the 1950s encouraged further migration from across the Soviet...
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  • over 300,000 unemployed educated youths. Inspired by the Soviet Virgin Lands Campaign, the Communist Youth League of China (CYLC) organized several model...
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    rule List of campaigns of the Chinese Communist Party Mass killings under communist regimes Neo-Stalinism Stalinism Virgin Lands Campaign, a contemporaneous...
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