Virgin Lands Campaign

GPTKB entity

Statements (29)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf agricultural campaign
gptkbp:country gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:endDate 1963
gptkbp:goal increase agricultural production
expand arable land
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Virgin Lands Campaign
gptkbp:launched gptkb:Nikita_Khrushchev
gptkbp:legacy environmental impact
influence on later Soviet policies
mixed success
gptkbp:location gptkb:Kazakhstan
gptkb:Siberia
gptkb:Ural_region
gptkb:North_Caucasus
gptkb:Volga_region
gptkbp:notableEvent 1956 record harvest
1960s droughts
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Leonid_Brezhnev
gptkb:Nikita_Khrushchev
gptkbp:organizedBy gptkb:Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
gptkbp:relatedTo Soviet agricultural policy
Soviet economic history
gptkbp:result eventual decline in yields
initial increase in grain production
long-term soil degradation
gptkbp:startDate 1954
gptkbp:targetedCrop gptkb:wheat
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Nikita_Khrushchev
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5