Shnurovaia Kniga

in the USSR, a document kept in each brigade of a kolkhoz and each division of a sovkhoz containing the field crop-rotation history. Information on the area of all land assigned to the division or brigade, classification and identification of the land by particular areas, the structure of crop lands, description of the soils, and the chief elements of the system of soil tillage and fertilization are entered in the Shnurovaia Kniga. Entries are certified by the signature of the person responsible for jobs in the particular field and by an agronomist. The Shnurovaia Kniga and the official field crop rotation record make it possible to monitor the use by kolkhozes and sovkhozes of advanced methods of soil tillage and raising agriculture crops.