Brewer's: Black Russia

Central and Southern Russia is so called from its black soil

“The winter crops in the whole of European Russia are very good, especially in the black-earth regions. In the government of Northern Russia the condition is less favourable.” —Newspaper paragraph, December, 1893.

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