Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union
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Throughout Russian history famines and droughts have been a common feature, often resulting in humanitarian crises traceable to political or economic instability, poor policy, environmental issues and war. Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union tended to occur fairly regularly, with famine occurring every 10–13 years and droughts every five to seven years. Golubev and Dronin distinguish three types of drought according to productive areas vulnerable to droughts: Central (the Volga basin, North Caucasus and the Central Chernozem Region), Southern (Volga and Volga-Vyatka area, the Ural region, and Ukraine), and Eastern (steppe and forest-steppe belts in Western and Eastern Siberia, and Kazakhstan).
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See also
- List of famines
- Holodomor
- Russian famine of 1921
- 1921–22 famine in Tatarstan
- Famine in Kazakhstan of 1932–33
- Soviet famine of 1932–33
- Soviet famine of 1946–47
- Trofim Lysenko
- Siege of Leningrad
- Hunger Plan
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Notable victims
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