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Geography Lesson 09


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WORDS:
хозяйство (farm)
сельский (agricultural)
климат (climate)
подсолнух (sunflower)
урожай (crop)
семя (seed)
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Подсолнечник родом из Северной Америки.
Родина подсолнечника Северная Америка.
(The sunflower is native to North America.)
Пётр Первый привёз подсолнечник в Россию.
(Peter the Great brought the sunflower to Russia.)
BTW, sunflower is translated as both подсолнух and подсолнечник, FYI. However, подсолнух is the word most likely to be used in everyday spoken language and подсолнечник is more of a scientific term used when botanists have scientific discussions regarding sunflowers.
Pustovoit did most of his work in the Кубань (Kuban) region in southwestern Russia, which borders on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov as we see on this map. More specifically, he worked near Краснодар (Krasnodar) which is a city with a population of about 744,000 and the administrative center of the Краснода́́рский край.
It is worth noting that sunflower seed oil (подсолнечное масло) is the main oil used in kitchens in both Russia and Ukraine.
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Климат прекрасно подходит для земледелия.
Климат прекрасно подходит для сельского хозяйства.
(The climate is perfect for agriculture.)

Подсолнечник принёс богатый урожай семян.
(The sunflower crop produced much seed.)