Virgin Lands

The Virgin Lands Campaign was introduced by Khrushchev in the 1950; it was an attempt to increase agricultural production by moving settlers into relatively empty regions of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Painters were "encouraged" to hype the campaign.

 Erik Rebane: Into a New Life (1959)

 Smitri Shmelev: Kazakhstan's Virgin Land: Tents on the Frontier

 Vasili Nechitailo: On Kuban Virgin Land (1958)

Vladimir Nekrasov: Just Married, Virgin Lands (1955)