Locusts Blacken Skies in Volgograd, THE MOSCOW TIMES From: The Moscow Times (Russia) | Date: August 8, 2000| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Yevgenia Borisova
The Moscow Times (Russia)
08-08-2000
A locust invasion in the Pallasovka district of the Volgograd region
is enormous and much worse than it was last year, the district's administrator
said Monday.

Anatoly Galichkin, head of the district located near Kazakhstan, said
the invasion of locusts from Kazakhstan over the weekend "was unbelievable
a cloud up to 4 kilometers wide and up to 25 kilometers long. It is 100
times worse than last year."

The head pilot of a regional aviation team that was sent to fight
locusts said that in his 20 years of work in agricultural aviation throughout

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