Virgin Lands Campaign

The Virgin Lands Campaign was a government program in the 1950s and 1960s in the Soviet Union (now Russia). It was a program where the Soviet government tried to make more land available for farming. The government thought that if more land was available, it would give farmers a chance to grow more crops and improve the country's food supply. The program also helped the Soviet Union improve its economy. To do this, the government built dams and canals to provide water for the new farmland, dug ditches and plowed new fields, and planted trees and grass. Many people were sent to the new land to farm it and thousands of tractors were used.