the huge grasslands of Eurasia, chiefly in Ukraine and Russia
another name for Kyrgyz Steppe
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“How am I going to cross the street?” he asked her this summer as the family drove through the Mongolian Steppes in a Russian-built van.
From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2022
Laboratory analysis revealed that big-game hunting has been an essential part of pastoral subsistence and culture in the Eastern Steppes for more than 3,500 years.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021
One such work was his seven-movement oratorio, Song of the Forest, a piece that celebrated the forestation of the Russian Steppes after the second world war.
From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2015
After 22 days of an infernal journey, they brought us to the depths of Asia, the Kirghiz Steppes.
From Time Magazine Archive
While, then, the words "Premier of Russia" still echoed through his head, there rose upon his inner ear a sudden note of melody, vagrant, sweet and melancholy as the songs of the Steppes.
From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton
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