His first novel, " Chernozem " [ Black Earth ], appeared in " Novy Mir " in 1958 1961; it describes rural life under Joseph Stalin and was attacked by the Soviet literary establishment.
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The trail was named either after black traces left by the Tatars on chernozem, or after Black Forest, a wooded area at the confluence of the Siniucha into the Southern Bug, where Tatars concentrated their forces before a raid.
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It was renamed dark earth because of confusion with the " chernozem " ( black earth soils in Russia; in these, the dark colour is traditionally ( not universally ) thought to come from humus, rather than soot ).
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There is a considerable variety of Mollisols, including soils very closely resembling the Chernozem ( " black earth " ) of eastern Europe ( parts of Russia, the Ukraine and neighboring regions ), and the Chernozemic soils of the Canadian prairies.
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Around 2 km north of Razhevo, in the Yamachkata ( or Rogachev Kladenets ) area, where the Chernozem-Begovo road currently runs, there are traces of the largest settlement of the tribe in the region, which existed even during the Roman period.
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Agricultural lands cover 60 % of the area, with fertile chernozem soils mostly in the north and west; forests 28.1 % ( with some of the oldest oak massives in the nation ), mostly in the south; and urban zones 6.8 %.
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The Danubian Plain is characterised by the fertile black earth chernozem, that accounts for 54 % of the zone's area, while the Pre-Balkan is dominated by grey forest soils ( 39 % ), which have good physical characteristics but are low in organic matter and phosphorus.
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"' Central Black Earth Region "'or "'Central Chernozem Region "'or "'Chernozemie "'( ) is a segment of the Eurasian chernozem belt that lies within Central Russia and comprises Voronezh Oblast, Lipetsk Oblast, Belgorod Oblast, Tambov Oblast, Oryol Oblast and Kursk Oblast.
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"' Central Black Earth Region "'or "'Central Chernozem Region "'or "'Chernozemie "'( ) is a segment of the Eurasian chernozem belt that lies within Central Russia and comprises Voronezh Oblast, Lipetsk Oblast, Belgorod Oblast, Tambov Oblast, Oryol Oblast and Kursk Oblast.
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Its northern part lies within the " Chernozem belt " ( black soil belt ) which goes from eastern Croatia ( Slavonia ), along the Danube ( northern Serbia, northern Bulgaria ( Danubian Plain ) and southern Romania ( Wallachian Plain ) ) to northeast Ukraine and further across the Central Black Earth Region and southern Russia into Siberia.
