tchernozyom

Updated: June 3, 2025

There is very little variety along the road through central Russia, but the monotony is of a different character from that of the harsh soil and the birch and pine forests of the north. The vast plains of this tchernozyom the celebrated "black earth zone" swell in long, low billows of herbage and grain, diversified only at distant intervals by tracts of woodland.

Isabel Florence Hapgood - Russian Rambles