# Tselina

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{{Short description|Soviet term for undeveloped fertile lands}}
{{Other uses|Tselina (disambiguation)}}
{{Expand Ukrainian|topic=geo|date=July 2018}}[[File:Stamp of USSR 2255.jpg|thumb|"[Komsomol](/source/Komsomol) to the Virgin Lands", 1958 stamp]]
'''Tselina''' or '''virgin lands''' ({{Langx|ru|целина́|lit=whole lands}}; {{Langx|uk|цілина́|translit=tsilina}}) is an [umbrella term](/source/umbrella_term) for underdeveloped, scarcely populated, high-fertility lands often covered with the [chernozem](/source/chernozem) soil.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/bse/148515/%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0|title=Целина - это... Что такое Целина?|work=Словари и энциклопедии на Академике|access-date=2018-07-29|language=ru}}</ref> The lands were mostly located in the [steppes](/source/steppes) of the [Volga region](/source/Volga_region), Northern [Kazakhstan](/source/Kazakhstan) and [Southern Siberia](/source/Southern_Siberia).<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Целина|encyclopedia=[The Great Soviet Encyclopedia](/source/The_Great_Soviet_Encyclopedia)|location=Moscow|url=http://www.endic.ru/enc_sovet/Celina-97624.html|date=|language=Russian|oclc=14476314}} Retrieved 2018-07-29.</ref>

The term became widely used in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) during the [Virgin Lands campaign](/source/Virgin_Lands_campaign) ({{langx|ru|Освое́ние целины́|lit=reclamation of tselina|translit=Osvoyeniye tseliny}}) - a state development and resettlement campaign to turn the lands into a major agriculture producing region.{{cn|date=May 2021}}

== See also ==
*[Tselinograd](/source/Tselinograd)

== References ==
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==External links==
*{{Wiktionary inline|целина}}

Category:Land tenure
Category:Agronomy
Category:Agriculture in the Soviet Union
Category:History of agriculture

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