HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMICS OF AGRICULTURE IN THE FOREST ZONE OF THE EAST EUROPEAN PLAIN

Abstract

The paper deals with the history of the agricultural development of the forest zone of the East European Plain basing on the geoecological concept of agricultural landscape. A number of stages of agricultural development are described including the period of non-plow agriculture, the period of plow agriculture before the Turmoil, the period of agricultural development after the Turmoil, and agricultural development in the 20th century. The conclusion is done about the regularity of the decline in agriculture in the forest zone of the East European Plain to the end of the 20th century.