The Virgin Lands campaign (Russian: Освое́ние целины́, romanized: Osvoyeniye tseliny, lit. 'reclamation of tselina'; Kazakh: Тың игеру, [təŋ ɪjɡeɾʏw])...

Tselina or virgin lands (Russian: целина́, lit. 'whole lands'; Ukrainian: цілина́, romanized: tsilina) is an umbrella term for underdeveloped, scarcely...

of foodstuffs for the general population. To meet this goal, the Virgin Lands Campaign was established under Nikita Khrushchev, which set aside ten million...

programs, including the Baykonur Cosmodrome. The initially successful Virgin Lands Campaign soon became unproductive and failed to solve the growing Soviet...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

especially Ukrainians, migrated to Pavlodar in Nikita Khrushchev's Virgin Lands Campaign. The Bayanaul National Park, a protected area of the Kazakh Uplands...

Brezhnev, and Mikhail Gorbachev, many reforms (such as Khrushchev's Virgin Lands Campaign) were enacted as attempts to defray the inefficiencies of the Stalinist...

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...

economy. In 1953, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev initiated the Virgin Lands Campaign designed to turn the traditional pasturelands of Kazakhstan into...

pamphlet, with the original commentary by Nicolaevsky. The Anti-Stalin Campaign and International Communism: A Selection of Documents, a 1956 book (published...

agriculture, Khrushchev's proposals were broader and included the Virgin Lands Campaign, under which hundreds of thousands of young volunteers would settle...

schemes Transmigration program Turkish settlers in Northern Cyprus Virgin Lands Campaign Colonialism Gentrification Imperialism Displacement Oregon Trail...

of Crimea Seven-year plan Maize fever Virgin Lands campaign Anti-Party Group Sovnarkhozy Anti-religious campaign 1961 monetary reform Novocherkassk massacre...

sunflowers, flax, and rice. Agricultural lands in Kazakhstan were depleted of their nutrients during the Virgin Lands Campaign during the Soviet era. This continues...

Paul Alexandrovich of Russia. After 1955, the Soviet Government's Virgin Lands Campaign provided the impetus for the rapid growth and development of modern...

starting with the Virgin Lands Campaign during the Soviet era. Because the precautionary measures taken to preserve soil quality when the campaign began were...

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...

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...

several notable campaigns of targeted non-penal workforce transfer. Twenty-five-thousanders NKVD labor columns Virgin Lands campaign Baku oil industry...

(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...

more Russians arrived in the years 1953–1965, during the so-called Virgin Lands Campaign of Soviet general secretary Nikita Khrushchev. Still more settlers...

over 300,000 unemployed educated youths. Inspired by the Soviet Virgin Lands Campaign, the Communist Youth League of China (CYLC) organized several model...

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)...

and industry of Tajikistan. During 1957–58 Nikita Khrushchev's Virgin Lands Campaign focused attention on Tajikistan, where living conditions, education...

rule List of campaigns of the Chinese Communist Party Mass killings under communist regimes Neo-Stalinism Stalinism Virgin Lands Campaign, a contemporaneous...

Soviet press misrepresented the historical presence of Chinese people – in lands gained by the Russian Empire – which provoked Russian violence against the...