Figure 5.15: Agriculture in Russia and the post-Soviet states. Agriculture in this part of the world has always been a difficult proposition, partly because of the cold climate and short growing seasons and partly because soil fertility or lack of rainfall are problems in all but a few places (Ukraine, Moldova, and Caucasia).

[Source consulted: Robin Milner-Gulland with Nikolai Dejevsky, Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Former Soviet Union, rev. ed. (New York: Checkmark Books, 1998), pp. 186–187, 198–199, 204–205, 216–217]