Bashkir Trans-Urals
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| Bashkir Trans-Urals | |
|---|---|
| Башкирское Зауралье | |
| ActiveGrown here in 2000 or later | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Southern Urals |
| Geography | |
| Country | Russia |
| Province/State | Bashkortostan |
| Coordinates | 53.43, 58.68 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 14,600 km² |
| Terrain | Approximately Uchalinsky, Abzelilovsky and Baymaksky districts of Bashkortostan, with the town of Sibay |
| Growing history | |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | 0 |
| Accessions | 0 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
The Bashkir Trans-Urals (Башкирское Зауралье) is a cannabis growing area in the east of Bashkortostan, Russia, on the eastern slope of the southern Urals and the plain at its foot. It lies within the Southern Urals growing region. Weedy hemp, Cannabis ruderalis, is one of the species that mark the weed communities of field crops in the north and centre of the Bashkir Trans-Urals; botanists sampled these communities in 2002–2004.[1][2] In 2019 the police found 18 hectares of hemp in Baymaksky District, in six patches of wild hemp on abandoned fields.[3]
Geography
The Bashkir Trans-Urals is a narrow belt between the Uraltau ridge to the west and the West Siberian Plain to the east, about 370 kilometres from north to south and 60–70 kilometres across. It has about 600,000 hectares of ploughland, and most of its farms grow grain. Botanists divide it into three districts: the Uchaly forest-steppe district on the eastern slope and foothills in the north-east, the Sibay steppe district on the Trans-Ural peneplain in the centre, and the Akyar steppe district on the peneplain in the south. The climate is sharply continental, and precipitation falls from about 500 mm a year in the north to about 270 mm in the south.[1]
The area is drawn on whole administrative units of Bashkortostan: Uchalinsky, Abzelilovsky and Baymaksky districts and the town of Sibay. It covers about 14,600 km².
Weedy hemp in the fields
S. M. Yamalov, E. F. Shaikhislamova and B. M. Mirkin classed the field-weed communities of the Bashkir Trans-Urals from 500 relevés, sample plots of field vegetation, that Shaikhislamova recorded in 2002 and 2003, and compared them with a classification made about 20 years earlier. Weedy hemp is one of the differential species of the association Cannabio–Sinapetum arvensis, which grows in row crops and winter crops. In those years the association's range took in the whole of the Uchaly forest-steppe district and the northern and central parts of the Sibay steppe district, where the moisture is more favourable; further south it gave way to the communities of the drier steppe.[1]
In 2019 G. R. Khasanova and her co-authors described a second association with hemp as a diagnostic species, Cannabio ruderalis–Galeopsietum ladani, named for hemp and red hemp-nettle (Galeopsis ladanum). It takes in the weeds of winter and, less often, spring cereals in the forest-steppe of the Bashkir Trans-Urals and on the Zilair plateau. Khasanova made its relevés in 2003 and 2004 near the villages of Akhunovo, Kidysh, Tashmuryn, Ilchino and Shartym in Uchalinsky District, and in July 2003 near Bekesh, Tubinsk, Kaktugay, Kuyantau and the town of Baymak in Baymaksky District; the type relevé lies 7.8 kilometres east of Ilchino. In the same paper they wrote that the communities of Cannabio–Sinapetum arvensis, described in the 1980s and formerly widespread in the Trans-Urals, now occur only locally in its northern part.[2]
Wild stands
In July 2005 drug police from Sibay and Neftekamsk found wild hemp in five villages of the Zilair, Baymak and Khaybulla districts and in the town of Agidel, mostly on land belonging to the village administrations.[4] In July 2007 they found 0.2 hectares of wild hemp, with no sign of cultivation, in a collective garden in Sibay.[5] Patches of wild hemp were reported in Baymaksky District in June 2008 and in Sibay in July 2010.[6][7]
During Operation Mak in July 2019 the police in Baymaksky District cut six patches of wild hemp on abandoned fields, 18 hectares in all, with a tractor.[3] In September 2019 the Uchalinsky District police detained a woman in Ilchino with more than 400 grams of what they took to be marijuana; she said she had gathered wild hemp at an abandoned house.[8]
Appellations
No appellations documented yet.
Accessions
No accessions documented yet.
Recent news
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See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Yamalov, S.M.; Shaikhislamova, E.F.; Mirkin, B.M. (2007). "Сегетальная растительность Башкирского Зауралья". Растительность России (in русский) (10): 89–99.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Khasanova, G.R.; Yamalov, S.M.; Lebedeva, M.V.; Shigapov, Z.Kh. (2019). "Сегетальная растительность Южного Урала: союзы Caucalidion Tx. ex von Rochow 1951 и Lactucion tataricae Rudakov in Mirkin et al. 1985". Растительность России (in русский) (37): 118–134. doi:10.31111/vegrus/2019.37.118.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bakhshieva, Galina (24 July 2019). "Операция «Мак»: В Башкирии полицейские обнаружили и уничтожили 18 га дикой конопли". Башинформ (in русский). Retrieved 24 October 2026.
- ↑ "Девять тонн конопли обнаружили сотрудники наркополиции Башкортостана". Башинформ (in русский). 18 July 2005. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
- ↑ "В ходе операции "Мак" выявляются очаги наркотикосодержащих растений". Башинформ (in русский). 18 July 2007. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
- ↑ Sabirova, Elmira (10 June 2008). "В республике проводится операция "Мак"". Башинформ (in русский). Retrieved 24 October 2026.
- ↑ "За неделю в ходе операции "Мак" наркополицейские выявили 46 преступлений". Башинформ (in русский). 6 July 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2026.
- ↑ "В Учалинском районе полицейские задержали сельчанку с пакетом конопли в руках". МВД по Республике Башкортостан (in русский). 12 September 2019. Archived from the original on 21 October 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2026.