September 7 marks 65 years since Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev took over as first secretary of the Communist Party. In March 2016, a survey was conducted: respondents were asked to answer which events that occurred during his tenure in power, they remember the most. In the first place, predictably, was Gagarin's flight into space, in the second - the development of virgin lands, and the third were expensive and unsuccessful experiments in agriculture. Khrushchev and corn are remembered more than "Khrushchev" or the debunking of Stalin's personality cult.
It is believed that the idea to sow almost the entire territory of the USSR with corn came from Khrushchev during a trip to the United States. But interest in this culture, according to the ex-head of the country's own recollections, arose in his youth, when he became a fitter's apprentice at a machine-building and iron foundry near Yuzovka (now Donetsk).
“Corn was the main crop for feeding livestock. It used to happen that a Ukrainian goes to the market in Yuzovka, grabs a bag of corn and, of course, a trough in a cart, then pours cobs into the trough, and the horses gnaw the corn,” Khrushchev wrote in his book “Time. People. Power (Memories).
In 1955, Khrushchev spoke at the plenum and talked a lot about animal husbandry. He set the Americans as an example: they are doing business much more successfully than us, and therefore they don’t line up for meat. And the editor of one of the newspapers published in the state of Iowa went further and even invited Soviet collective farmers to come to the USA. Khrushchev decided to send a delegation of agricultural scientists to the States to collect agricultural "intelligence". At the end of the trip, the delegates presented a report, one of the main places in which was given to corn. When in 1956 Khrushchev demanded to “catch up and overtake America” in terms of meat and milk production, there were no questions about how to feed this army of cows, pigs and other livestock.
In 1959, the area occupied by corn increased by about a third - at that time it replaced only industrial crops and forage grasses. Landings were placed in the North Caucasus, Ukraine and Moldova. In the same year, Nikita Khrushchev spent two weeks in the United States, where he managed to visit Roswell Garst's farm in Iowa.
It was not by chance that he ended up there - in 1955, after the departure of the Soviet delegation from the States, the USSR invited American farmers. Garst obtained permission to travel to the USSR and even the right to trade. The farmer met with Khrushchev and persuaded him to buy 5,000 tons of corn kernels. They paid in gold bars - there was nothing more to pay with.Khrushchev's son, Sergei, in the book Nikita Khrushchev. Reformer,” recalls: “I found out that my father put his hand into the gold storerooms soon after his return from vacation. He, in my presence, discussed with one of his colleagues the benefits of the deal made with Garst. I got angry...
My father listened to me benevolently and answered with a quote from Eugene Onegin: How the state grows rich, And how it lives, and why It doesn’t need gold, When it has a simple product.
Since 1959, corn plantings in the USSR begin to grow almost geometric progression: if in 1956 18 million hectares were allocated for them, then by 1962 - 37 million hectares. Corn was sown not only in the south of the country, but also in northern regions, up to the Vologda region, although in the local climate it ripened poorly. Only in Western Siberia corn crops from 1953 to 1960 increased from 2.1 thousand hectares to 1.6 million hectares, while the yield was 7.5 q / ha.
For the North Caucasus, Ukraine and Moldova, hybrid corn seeds were purchased in the USA and Canada, which gave large yields, and for a while this made it possible to solve the problem of feeding livestock in these regions. But already in 1960, imported seeds became too expensive, and Soviet seeds had to be planted.
The whole country was captured by "corn fever" - films and cartoons were made about it, poems and songs were written, and corn champagne, sticks, bread, cereal and even corn sausage were presented in stores. Corn appeared both in children's amateur performances and on propaganda posters - for example, with the slogans “Let beans walk around the Union in an embrace with corn” and “Each heifer for corn”.
It would seem that the construction of communism was going on full swing(in 1960, Khrushchev at the 22nd Party Congress assured that it would be over in 20 years), feed for livestock in the form of corn silage was found, and, consequently, a bright future awaited people. But everything turned out to be not so simple - in the south, corn gave excellent harvests, and in the north they could not boast of success. Just as important, corn supplanted other essential crops, and this eventually led to a shortage of bread.
If in 1955-1959 the Soviet Agriculture showed an annual growth of an average of 7.6%, then during the years of Khrushchev's reforms and innovations (1959-1962), this figure fell to 1.7%. In 1962, the “queen of the fields” already occupied 37 million hectares, but in most of the Non-Chernozem and eastern regions, the entire corn crop was lost. For the needs of livestock, corn turned out to be a help, which had a positive effect on the state of animal husbandry.
“Some people in the USSR did not understand me before and do not understand me now. There are those who condemned me then and condemn me now. I think it's due to ignorance. They do not understand that there is no other crop equal to corn for animal husbandry. It may be objected that not everywhere. Yes, but the main thing is the people. In the same climatic region, corn does not grow in one person, while in another it produces 500 and 1000 centners of silage mass. To put it bluntly: for a smart one, it has an effect, but for a fool, oats and barley will not grow, ”Khrushchev wrote in his memoirs.
In the autumn of 1962, the Central Committee of the CPSU and the allied Council of Ministers issued a decree "On putting things in order in the expenditure of grain resources", limiting the sale of bread to 2.5 kg per person - there was no longer enough grain for grinding.
In 1963 the situation worsened. Due to crop failure, the gross grain harvest amounted to only 107.5 million tons (30% less than in 1962), and the yield dipped from 10.9 to 8.3 c/ha. “The country is on the brink. There was no talk of a famine comparable to the famine of 1890, but my father had no time for reforms. In 1963, all efforts were reduced to how to hold out until the new harvest, ”Sergey Khrushchev writes in his book. According to him, not only white bread disappeared from the shelves, but also semolina, vermicelli and other products.
“The crop failure of 1963 hit hard on the authority of the father. Still, two years ago he promised to build communism, and now you won’t find decent bread in the store. And free bread disappeared from canteens, as they explained - temporarily, only for a year ... Contrary to the facts, it suddenly began to seem to people that under Stalin they lived better, ”complains Sergey Khrushchev.
The USSR had to buy grain from the capitalists. “All together amounted to about 12 million tons. Getting rid of hunger cost 372.2 tons of gold out of the 1082.3 tons of cash available for that year,” Sergey Khrushchev calculated.
In mid-October, it was reported that the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU granted Khrushchev's resignation. After Leonid Brezhnev came to power, corn was almost completely ousted from arable land - it was no longer grown even in those parts of the country where it had been done for a long time and successfully.
The idea of a radical change in the structure of cereals, primarily due to an increase in corn plantings, is in the mind Soviet people inextricably linked with the personality of Khrushchev. Motivating the need for a sharp increase in corn crops, Khrushchev appealed to the American experience, seeing in it another "recipe for all diseases at once." "Corn, comrades," he emphasized in one of his speeches, "is a tank in the hands of fighters, I mean collective farmers; it is a tank that makes it possible to overcome barriers, overcome obstacles on the way to creating an abundance of products for our people." The stake on corn was explained by the fact that, in addition to the grain cob, it also has a stalk with green mass, which can be used for livestock feed. "Monoculture" was thus seen as a condition for a "breakthrough" in both grain production and animal husbandry.
Indeed, the policy of the party in the countryside has never been carried out so earnestly and zealously as during the years of the "corn epic" - from 1955 to 1962. "Queen of the fields" corn by force planted absolutely everywhere, up to the northern regions of the Arkhangelsk region. During these years, the area under corn more than doubled and reached 37 million hectares by 1962, exceeding the total area of plowed virgin and fallow lands. Strict regulation from above, unquestioning instructions on where and what to sow, have led to the fact that the sowing of wheat and rye in traditional agricultural areas has decreased, and the total grain harvest has decreased. " Corn epic"- the most striking example of economic fetishism and voluntarism, but not the only one. In the same years, the "saving" square-nest method of planting plants, free keeping of cows and separate harvesting of grain were introduced everywhere and diligently to increase the productivity of agriculture, as well as the elimination of clean vapors.
"Catch up and overtake America!"
The American experience haunted the new Soviet leader. In 1957, speaking in Leningrad, Khrushchev formulated the most important task of the moment: "To catch up and overtake America in the production of meat, milk and butter per capita!" It was clean water political adventure, the purpose of which was to demonstrate to the whole world the advantages of socialism after the recent events in Hungary and Poland. Economic voluntarism has had serious consequences for the development of animal husbandry. The fulfillment of odious appeals often turned into a tragedy: the entire livestock was slaughtered, the scale of postscripts expanded, and the falsification of statistics became commonplace. Local party leaders often became hostages of the situation. So, the secretary of the Ryazan Regional Committee Larionov, publicly promising in short term"catch up and overtake America", ordered to slaughter all the livestock in the region, including dairy pigs. Having received the star of the Hero of Socialist Labor for "unprecedented success", Larionov shot himself.
Corn is a valuable agricultural crop that provides food for both livestock and people. Nevertheless, during the reign of Nikita Khrushchev, it was the “queen of the fields” who brought Soviet Union before the issuance of bread on food cards, and this is in peacetime! The fact is that the Soviet climate was categorically not suitable for corn - neither natural nor political.
September 7 marks 65 years since Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev took over as first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. In March 2016, the Levada Center conducted a survey: respondents were asked to answer which events that occurred during his tenure in power, they remember the most. In the first place, predictably, was the space flight of Yuri Gagarin, the second was the development of virgin lands, and the third were expensive and unsuccessful experiments in agriculture. Khrushchev and corn are remembered more than "Khrushchev" or the debunking of Stalin's personality cult.
It is believed that the idea to sow almost the entire territory of the USSR with corn came from Khrushchev during a trip to the United States. But interest in this culture, according to the ex-head of the country's own recollections, arose in his youth, when he became a fitter's apprentice at a machine-building and iron foundry near Yuzovka (now Donetsk). “Corn was the main crop for feeding livestock. It used to happen that a Ukrainian goes to the market in Yuzovka, grabs a bag of corn and, of course, a trough in a cart, then pours cobs into the trough, and the horses gnaw the corn,” Khrushchev wrote in his book “Time. People. Power (Memoirs). In 1955, Khrushchev spoke at the plenum and talked a lot about animal husbandry. He set the Americans as an example: they are doing business much more successfully than us, and therefore they don’t line up for meat. And the editor of one of the newspapers published in the state of Iowa went further and even invited Soviet collective farmers to come to the USA. Khrushchev decided to send a delegation of agricultural scientists to the States to collect agricultural "intelligence". At the end of the trip, the delegates presented a report, one of the main places in which was given to corn. When in 1956 Khrushchev demanded to “catch up and overtake America” in terms of meat and milk production, there were no questions about how to feed this army of cows, pigs and other livestock.
By 1959, the area occupied by corn had increased by about a third - at that time it replaced only industrial crops and forage grasses. Landings were placed in the North Caucasus, Ukraine and Moldova. In the same year, Nikita Khrushchev spent two weeks in the United States, where he managed to visit Roswell Garst's farm in Iowa. 
It was not by chance that he ended up there - in 1955, after the departure of the Soviet delegation from the States, the USSR invited American farmers. Garst obtained permission to travel to the USSR and even the right to trade. The farmer met with Khrushchev and persuaded him to buy 5,000 tons of corn kernels. They paid in gold bars - there was nothing more to pay with.
Khrushchev's son, Sergei, in the book Nikita Khrushchev. Reformer," recalls:
“The fact that my father puts his hand into the gold pantries, I learned soon after his return from vacation. He, in my presence, discussed with one of his colleagues the benefits of the deal made with Garst. I got angry...
My father listened to me benevolently and replied with a quote from Eugene Onegin: How the state grows rich, And how it lives, and why, It does not need gold, When it has a simple product.
Since 1959, corn plantings in the USSR began to grow almost exponentially: if in 1956 18 million hectares were allocated for them, then by 1962 - 37 million hectares. Corn was sown not only in the south of the country, but also in the northern regions, up to the Vologda Oblast, although it did not ripen well in the local climate. Only in Western Siberia, corn crops from 1953 to 1960 increased from 2.1 thousand hectares to 1.6 million hectares, while the yield was 7.5 q / ha. 
For the North Caucasus, Ukraine and Moldova, hybrid corn seeds were purchased in the USA and Canada, which gave large yields, and for a while this made it possible to solve the problem of feeding livestock in these regions. But already in 1960, imported seeds became too expensive, and Soviet seeds had to be planted.
The whole country was captured by "corn fever" - films and cartoons were made about it, poems and songs were written, and corn champagne, sticks, bread, cereal and even corn sausage were presented in stores. Corn appeared both in children's amateur performances and on propaganda posters - for example, with the slogans "Let beans walk around the Union in an embrace with corn" and "Each heifer for corn."
It would seem that the construction of communism was in full swing (in 1961, Khrushchev assured at the 22nd Party Congress that it would be completed in 20 years), feed for livestock in the form of corn silage was found, and, consequently, a bright future awaited people. But everything turned out to be not so simple - in the south, corn gave excellent harvests, but in the north they could not boast of success. Just as important, corn supplanted other essential crops, and this eventually led to a shortage of bread.
“The failure was due to the very mechanism for implementing the idea of the chairman of the Politburo. The political situation of those years assumed unconditional, automatic conciliation with the initiative party, its Central Committee and the Politburo of the Central Committee. Therefore, as they said back in Stalin's times, "excesses on the ground" not only took place, but prevailed. It should also be taken into account that, by the time of Khrushchev's leadership, the Soviet school of genetics in crop production, plant breeding scientists, the breeding school as a whole were largely either physically destroyed (the clearest example is Nikolai Vavilov) or brought under the "administrative line". The implementation (ideologically, in terms of materiel) was not headed by specialists, in fact, planting (without taking into account the properties of the soil and often climatic conditions) was carried out by student, volunteer Komsomol detachments - they did not have special specialized training, ”explains Natalya Soboleva, director of the NRA corporate ratings department. 
If in 1955-1959 Soviet agriculture showed an annual growth of an average of 7.6%, then during the years of Khrushchev's reforms and innovations (1959-1962), this figure fell to 1.7%. In 1962, the “queen of the fields” already occupied 37 million hectares, but in most of the Non-Chernozem and eastern regions, the entire corn crop was lost. For the needs of livestock, corn turned out to be a help, which had a positive effect on the state of animal husbandry.
“Some people in the USSR did not understand me before and do not understand me now. There are those who condemned me then and condemn me now. I think it's due to ignorance. They do not understand that there is no other crop equal to corn for animal husbandry. It may be objected that not everywhere. Yes, but the main thing is the people. In the same climatic region, corn does not grow in one person, while in another it produces 500 and 1000 centners of silage mass. To put it bluntly: for a smart one, it has an effect, but for a fool, oats and barley will not grow, ”Khrushchev wrote in his memoirs.
In the fall of 1962, the Central Committee of the CPSU and the allied Council of Ministers issued a decree “On putting things in order in the expenditure of grain resources”, limiting the sale of bread to 2.5 kg per person - there was no longer enough grain for grinding. “The consequences of thoughtlessly following the directives“ from above ”were catastrophic. I remember well how, as a child, I stood in line for bread - there was gray bread, black too, but there was no white. Rolls were given either by coupons or in accordance with the norms of leave. I was then 7-8 years old, and in one hand I could get two white rolls for 7 kopecks. To do this, it was necessary to stand two lines - one to the cashier, the other to issue, because there might well not be enough bread. On TV they showed clogged store shelves - they say, look, there is bread. But these were photographs taken before people entered this store, ”the professor of the Department of the History of Economics of the Institute shared his memories with Gazeta.Ru social sciences RANEPA Alexander Bessolitsyn.
In 1963 the situation worsened. Due to crop failure, the gross grain harvest amounted to only 107.5 million tons (30% less than in 1962), and the yield dipped from 10.9 to 8.3 c/ha.
“The country is on the brink. There was no talk of a famine comparable to the famine of 1890, but my father had no time for reforms. In 1963, all efforts were reduced to how to hold out until the new harvest, ”Sergey Khrushchev writes in his book.
According to him, not only white bread disappeared from the shelves, but also semolina, vermicelli and other products.
“The crop failure of 1963 hit hard on the authority of the father. Still, two years ago he promised to build communism, and now you won’t find decent bread in the store. And free bread disappeared from canteens, as they explained - temporarily, only for a year ... Contrary to the facts, people suddenly began to think that under Stalin they lived better, ”complains Sergey Khrushchev.
The USSR had to buy grain from the capitalists.
“All together amounted to about 12 million tons. Getting rid of hunger cost 372.2 tons of gold out of the 1082.3 tons of cash available for that year,” Sergey Khrushchev calculated.
In mid-October 1964, the Pravda newspaper reported that the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU granted Khrushchev's resignation. After Leonid Brezhnev came to power, corn was almost completely ousted from arable land - it was no longer grown even in those parts of the country where it had been done for a long time and successfully. 
Corn is a type of annual herbaceous plants cereal families. Corn is a culture of high productivity and versatile use. Corn grain contains 9-12% protein, 4-6% fat (up to 40% in the germ), 65-70% carbohydrates, yellow grain varieties contain a lot of provitamin A.
Until the second half of the 1950s, corn in the structure of grain crops in the USSR barely reached 15%, and, for example, in North America was over 35%, in Australia and South America- over 30%. This structure was dictated by the traditions of agriculture and geographical conditions.
In 1956, the 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev put forward the slogan: "Catch up and overtake America!". It was about competition in the production of meat and dairy products. Instead of the grass-field crop rotation system, traditional for almost the entire USSR (except Central Asia) at the meeting, it was recommended to move to rapid, wide and widespread planting of corn.
In 1957-1959, the area under corn was increased by about a third - due to the sowing of industrial crops and forage grasses. At that time, this undertaking covered only North Caucasus, Ukraine and Moldova.
On a visit to the United States in September 1959, Khrushchev visited Iowa in the fields of the famous farmer Rockwell Garst. He grew hybrid corn, which gave a very high yield. Khrushchev urged to use the "corn" experience of the United States.
The capital mayor even developed special technology, according to which corn is grown in the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region.
The essence of the technology proposed by Yuri Luzhkov is that corn is not sown directly into the ground, but first its grain is placed in so-called biocontainers, or macrocapsules, which consist of biocompost, peat and other nutrients. In such a protective shell, the grain is not afraid of frost, which our climate is rich in, and germinates faster.
Nikita Khrushchev and corn fever. What is "Kukutsapol"? It is not in vain that we highly value corn: corn is meat, lard, butter, milk!
Crimea. 1955 Komsomolsko-youth decade harvesting corn From the personal archive of Gennady Girgidov
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* Khrushchev and corn are twin brothers
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev ruled the USSR from 1953 to 1964. He became famous for many extraordinary deeds. However, his corn epic caused the greatest resonance. 
Large areas in the Crimea are occupied by the "queen of the fields" - corn, which annually gives rich harvests
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He had the best intentions: corn is a unique plant that was supposed to quickly help to cope with hunger among both people and animals. However, it was not taken into account that this plant is thermophilic, and therefore the zeal of many people was not crowned with success. The idea to grow corn from Kazakhstan to Taimyr failed, remaining in the memory of the descendants with the phrase “Corn is the queen of the fields” and the strange name Kukutsapol, composed of the first syllables of the famous phrase, which some especially zealous workers managed to call their sons.
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*In the period from 1954 to 1968, Trudolyubovka was renamed into Corn. Corn (until 1962 Trudolyubovka, until 1948 Taymaz) is a village in the Nizhnegorsk region of Crimea
* Corn harvest in Crimea in 2016 amounted to 5 thousand tons
*Corn must be boiled without salt, otherwise it will become very tough. That is why you buy boiled corn on the cob, and then salt it. Old corn should be boiled for at least 2 hours, and young corn for only 15 minutes.
*The first acquaintance with corn of the peoples of Russia occurred during Russian-Turkish war 1768-1774, when Russia took possession of the Crimea. Corn in Russia at first was called Turkish wheat. As a result of the completion of the Russian-Turkish war of 1806-1812. Under the Bucharest peace treaty, Bessarabia was returned to Russia, where corn was cultivated everywhere. From Bessarabia, corn spread to Ukraine. http://artemenko.com.ua/hit11/
Until the second half of the 1950s, corn in the structure of grain crops in the USSR barely reached 15%, and, for example, in North America it was more than 35%, in Australia and South America - more than 30%. This structure was dictated by the traditions of agriculture and geographical conditions.
In 1956, the 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev put forward the slogan: "Catch up and overtake America!". It was about competition in the production of meat and dairy products. Instead of the grass-field crop rotation system, traditional for almost the entire USSR (except for Central Asia), it was recommended at the meeting to switch to fast, wide and widespread sowing of corn.
In 1957-1959, the area under corn was increased by about a third - due to the sowing of industrial crops and forage grasses. At that time, this undertaking covered only the North Caucasus, Ukraine and Moldova.
On a visit to the United States in September 1959, Khrushchev visited Iowa in the fields of the famous farmer Rockwell Garst. He grew hybrid corn, which gave a very high yield. Khrushchev urged to use the "corn" experience of the United States.
Since 1959, corn crops began to expand rapidly (in 1956, 18 million hectares were allocated for them, in 1962 - 37 million hectares), displacing traditional grain crops and forage grasses. Corn was sown even in the northern regions, up to the Vologda region, although this crop is thermophilic and practically does not produce grain north of Moscow. At the same time, hybrid varieties of corn were bought in the USA and Canada, which were successfully introduced in the North Caucasus, Ukraine, and Moldova half more than the traditional Soviet varieties - dramatically improved the feed supply of livestock, significantly increasing its productivity in these regions already in 1958-1959.
For a while, the “queen of the fields” took over the country: corn flakes, corn sticks, corn bread, corn sausage. There were films about corn, poems and songs.
In 1960, due to an increase in prices, purchases of American and Canadian seeds stopped, it was decided to introduce Soviet varieties improved by North American technology everywhere.
Already by 1964, at least 60% of the corn crops produced in 1960-1962 had died, and the yield of the "remaining" corn fields was half that in 1946-1955.
After Leonid Brezhnev came to power, corn was almost completely ousted from the country's arable land - even in those areas where it had always been successfully grown. As a result, by the beginning of the 1970s, the area under corn fell to the lowest level in the 20th century. In the 1970s, corn was actually grown in Russia only in the North Caucasus. but high yield grain crop continued to be a weighty argument in favor of its cultivation, and therefore in the 1980-1990s, the area of cultivation of this cereal began to expand. At present, corn for grain is grown in the Chernozem zone, the Middle Volga region, on Southern Urals, as well as some areas Far East(Amur region, Khanka lowland).
The capital's mayor even developed a special technology by which corn is grown in the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region.
The essence of the technology proposed by Yuri Luzhkov is that corn is not sown directly into the ground, but first its grain is placed in so-called biocontainers, or macrocapsules, which consist of biocompost, peat and other nutrients. In such a protective shell, the grain is not afraid of frost, which our climate is rich in, and germinates faster.
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Nikita Khrushchev is presented with a wreath of corn in one of the collective farms of Ukraine, 1963
*“I am a maize grower,” he liked to joke when talking with party members and recalling how in 1949, when he was the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR, he managed to save the Soviet republic from hunger precisely thanks to corn.
* He developed this program for several years, but it began to take on a real shape in January 1954, when Khrushchev wrote a corresponding note for the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU. In it, he stated that " specific gravity corn sowing in the USSR is 3.6 percent of all grain, and in the USA - 36 percent. This largely explains the high yield of all grain crops in the United States (17.3 centners per hectare), since the yield of corn in the United States per hectare is more than twice that of wheat and oats.
* Officially, corn became the second bread in the USSR in September 1956. Then an all-Union seminar on corn was held in Moscow. It was on it that Khrushchev said catchphrase“Corn, comrades, is a tank in the hands of fighters, I mean collective farmers; this is a tank that makes it possible to overcome barriers, overcome obstacles on the way to creating an abundance of products for our people,” Khrushchev said, promising to plant it from Kazakhstan to Taimyr.
* Agitprop switched completely to corn. In the "List of texts for caps, headings of posters", recommended by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee to the editors of regional newspapers in 1954, there was a quatrain: "In all regions and territories of the Union / May produce corn. / Introduce this culture everywhere: / In every region and every region.
* In 1961, a color film called "Magic Corn" was shot, even before that, the Soviet glass industry had launched the production of Christmas tree decorations in the form of corn cobs.
*In 2005 in one of the farms of the Gulkevichevsky district Krasnodar Territory erected a monument to Khrushchev. On a column of white marble, crowned with a bust of the disgraced politician, the inscription: "To the great maize devotee Nikita Khrushchev." This is the only monument in his honor in Russia - in addition to the tombstone at the Novodevichy cemetery.