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Central and Southern Russia is so called from its black soil
“The winter crops in the whole of European Russia are very good, especially in the black-earth regions. In the government of Northern Russia the condition is less favourable.” —Newspaper paragraph, December, 1893.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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