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Cotton in bloom

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Good cotton, however blank areas due to alkaline soil are visible in the central part. Nikolayevka

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Cotton. In the foreground cotton is light colored and rows are visible - alkaline soil. Further back the soil is better

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Alkaline soil. Thin and poor cotton. In the distance cotton withers and vanishes

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Good cotton on the left. No cotton on the right. Both sides are fertilized but the soil quality alternates annually, last year the harvest was the other way round.

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The village of Nikolayevka. In the settler's garden. Pomegranates

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Cotton in bloom. White - on the first day, red - on the second day

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Courtyard of a settler. Ovens for preparing food in the courtyard

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Cotton

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Cotton field ruined by locusts. The village of Grafovka

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Georgian woman in national costume

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View of the valley of the Bzyb River from the fortress