novouzen

Updated: May 29, 2025

At another extremity of Russia, in the dry Steppes of Novouzen, over a thousand dams for ponds were built and several hundreds of deep wells were sunk by the communes; while in a wealthy German colony of the south-east the commoners worked, men and women alike, for five weeks in succession, to erect a dam, two miles long, for irrigation purposes.

kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin - Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution