Virgin Lands campaign

GPTKB entity

Statements (30)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf agricultural policy
Soviet government program
gptkbp:affectedPopulation rural workers
Soviet youth volunteers
gptkbp:alternativeName gptkb:Tselina_campaign
gptkbp:endDate 1963
gptkbp:goal cultivate previously unused land
increase Soviet agricultural production
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Virgin Lands campaign
gptkbp:launched gptkb:Nikita_Khrushchev
gptkbp:legacy environmental issues
mixed success
gptkbp:location gptkb:Kazakhstan
gptkb:Ural_Mountains
gptkb:Siberia
gptkb:North_Caucasus
gptkb:Volga_region
gptkbp:mainCrops gptkb:wheat
gptkbp:notableEvent 1956 record harvest
1960s droughts
gptkbp:organizedBy gptkb:Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Nikita_Khrushchev
gptkb:Soviet_Union
Soviet agriculture
gptkbp:result initial increase in grain production
long-term soil degradation
decline in productivity
gptkbp:startDate 1954
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Komsomol
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6