一长期以来,大多数苏联居民已经习惯于自己解决许多必不可少的食品——诸如土豆、蔬菜等等——的供应问题。众所周知,苏联集体农庄和国营农场的每个农户都有一块宅旁园地;在工业城市近郊若干公里的地区内,也到处是城市居民的菜园地。这些自留地的面积不大: For a long time, most Soviet inhabitants had been accustomed to supplying themselves with the supply of many essential foods, such as potatoes, vegetables and the like. It is well known that every farmer in the Soviet collective farms and state-run farms has a garden adjacent to it; in some kilometers of the suburbs of industrial cities, it is also a vegetable garden for urban residents. The area of ​​these plots is not large: