Back Bakir torpaqlar layihəsi Azerbaijani Усвояване на целината Bulgarian Campagne des terres vierges French नई भूमि अभियान Hindi Szűzföld-program Hungarian Kampanye Tanah-Tanah Dara ID Campagna delle terre vergini Italian Тың игеру Kazakh 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. While the scheme was initially successful, it eventually became a failure for Soviet agriculture.[1]
- ^ Tompson 1995, p. 174.