Kazakhstan Bradt Travel Guide, Paul Brummell, Bradt Travel Guides, 2012, ISBN 978-1-84162-369-6, ... Hundreds of thousands of people were brought into the Virgin Lands from across the Soviet Union ... important effect on the demographic composition of northern Kazakhstan ... harvest of 1956 appeared to vindicate the success of the programme with more than half of the 125 million tonnes of grain produced in the USSR coming from the new lands ... the long-term legacy of the Virgin Lands Campaign was not as positive ...
Central Asian Republics, Michael Kort, Infobase Publishing, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8160-5074-1, ... mixed results ... major ecological disaster ... did not stop the Virgin Lands enterprise. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kazakhstan produced one-third of the country's wheat ...
