Tselina

{{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 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 for underdeveloped, scarcely populated, high-fertility lands often covered with the 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 of the Volga region, Northern Kazakhstan and Southern Siberia.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Целина|encyclopedia=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 during the 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

== References == {{Reflist}}

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

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