1954
Virgin Lands Kazakhstan Expansion
Directs major investment and migration toward new grain-growing areas in northern Kazakhstan.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Kazakhstan in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Directs major investment and migration toward new grain-growing areas in northern Kazakhstan.
Helps organize Communist Party personnel for Khrushchev's Virgin Lands agricultural campaign.
Moves to Kazakhstan as the party's second-ranking official, helping staff the expanding Virgin Lands campaign.
Replaces the previous republican party leader and assumes overall political responsibility for Kazakhstan.
Oversees the Kazakhstan party organization during a major Virgin Lands grain harvest.
Declares the Kazakhstan virgin lands a failure & seeks 2 million tons of US wheat
Declares the Kazakhstan experiment a failure & seeks 2 million tons of US wheat
Leads the programme returning lunar soil to Earth without a crew.
The achievement marks robotic lunar sample mission as an important Russian scientific milestone.
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