[1] The lands were mostly located in the steppes of the Volga region, Northern Kazakhstan and Southern Siberia.
[2] The term became widely used in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the Soviet Union during the Virgin Lands campaign (Russian: Освое́ние целины́, romanized: Osvoyeniye tseliny, lit.
'reclamation of tselina') - a state development and resettlement campaign to turn the lands into a major agriculture producing region.
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