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The Virgin Lands Campaign was an initiative by Nikita Khrushchev to open up vast tracts of unused (virgin) steppe in the northern Kazakh SSR and the Altai region of the Russian SFSR, started in 1954.
In the first year of the programme, 190,000 kmē were ploughed up, and in 1955, an extra 14 million were ploughed. With all this new land, a vast amount of people would need to be brought in from all over the Soviet Union: the Komsomol was charged with recruiting them.
More than 300,000 people, mostly Ukrainian, arrived in the Virgin Lands to begin new lives as farmers. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, students and combine harvester operators would join them; however, these people would stay for only a year's harvestHarvesting is the process of gathering crops off the fields. In Western Canada, the annual wheat harvest starts in late August or early September and farmers must balance readiness of the wheat versus the time before the first hard frost in the fall.. By the end of the mass immigrationImmigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. An immigrant is usually someone who intends to reside permanently, and not a casual visitor or traveler. Immigration means "in-migration" into a couns to the Virgin Lands, Ukrainians outnumbered KazakhThe Kazakhs Qazaq, Quazaq , (in Kazakh: in Russian: English term is the transliteration from Russian) are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia famous in the past for the fierce love of freedom, skillful horse riding, hunting with semi-doms in many areas.
For a brief time, Khrushchev inspired a communist zeal in the peoples of the Soviet Union, and concentrated that zeal on a task that, for an equally brief time, produced the expected results.
The first harvest on the Virgin Lands, in 19561956 is a leap year starting on Sunday. see link for calendar) Events January January 1 End of Anglo- Egyptian Condominium in Sudan. January 16 President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine January 26 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in, was a stunning success. Of the 125 million tonneA tonne (also called metric tonne is a non- SI unit of mass, accepted for use with SI, defined as: 1 tonne 103 kg ( 106 g). It is approximately equal to 2,204. 62262 pounds. The naming of this unit was far from original because SI advocates derived the nas of grainThe word grain has a great many meanings, most being descriptive of a small piece or particle. For examples: a grain of sand or salt; see grain size for granule a grain is a type of simple dry fruit technically called a caryopsis . In agriculture, such cr produced in the Soviet Union that year, more than half of it came from one eighth of the country. The Soviet Union was producing, per capitaPer capita is a Latin phrase meaning for each head''. Usually used to indicate the average per person of any given statistic, commonly income. It is also used in wills to indicate that each of the named beneficiaries should inherit equal shares of the est, twice as much wheat as the West. However, harvests would never again reach the level of 1956, for a number of reasons, most of them because of Khrushchev's lack of foresight.
Nearly all of the collective farms in the Virgin Lands grew one crop alone: wheat. By the 1960s, the soil had been drained of all its nutrients beneficial to wheat, and before long, due to lack of any measures to prevent erosion, much of that soil was simply being blown away by the wind to leave bare, useless steppe behind.
Also, much of the crop that could be harvested was wasted, as there were not enough silos, and much had to be just thrown away.
Following the failure of the Virgin Lands Campaign, the Soviet Union was forced to buy grain from Canada to meet its needs.
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