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According to the report of Golubev and Dronin, one may distinguish three types of drought according to productive areas vulnerable to droughts: Central ( Volga basin, Northern Caucasus ), and Central Chernozem Region ), Southern (Volga and Volga- Vyatka area , Ural , Ukraine ), and Eastern ( Steppe and forest-steppe belts Western and Eastern Siberia and Kazakhstan ). This report gives the following table of the major droughts in Russia.
The (including Volga area, or ''Povolzhye'') and Ukraine. Fridtjof Nansen was honored with the 1922 Nobel Prize For Peace , in part for his work as High Commissioner for Relief In Russia. Other organizations that helped to combat the Soviet famine were UISE (Union Internationale de Secours aux Enfants, International Save the Children Union) and the International Red Cross . The second famine happened during the Collectivisation In The USSR . In 1932 - 1933 confiscations of grain and other food by the Soviet authorities caused a famine which affected more than 40 million people, especially in the south on the Don and Kuban areas and in Ukraine , where by various estimates from 5 to 10 million may have starved to death (the event known as '' Holodomor ''). About 200,000 Kazakh nomads fled to China, Iran, Mongolia and Afghanistan during the famine. The information about this famine was suppressed by Stalin's Regime . The last major famine in the USSR happened in 1946 due to the severe Drought in over 50% of the grain-productive zone of the country. The drought of 1963 caused panic Slaughter ing of Livestock , but there was no risk of famine. Since that year the Soviet Union started importing Feed Grains for its livestock in increasing amounts. NOTES |
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