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Irrigated hop field near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 2011

The tradition and organization of the work, known from Russia’s needs. However, the neglected region has a long
England, has found their parallels in the Australian tradition of using hops, as evidenced by a mention in
countryside. the Russian Chronicle dated 1521: "And Vladimir made
peace with the Bulgars (today the Chuvash) and they swore
In Australia, there are no historic hop buildings oaths to each other. And the Bulgars said: – There will be
similar to the Žatec hop architecture. The preserved no peace between us only when stone floats and the hops
buildings are located mainly in the rural environment sink..." (Annals of ancient times). Hop production is now in
of the farming business and do not form an urban unit decline. There are no historic hop buildings of architectural 185
similar to that in Žatec. Hop drying kilns are located significance that could be compared to the nominated
mainly around New Norfolk in Derwent Valley, with Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz hops property.
the largest complex being Bushy Park Hop Farm,
about 55 km north-west of Hobart. The complex
presents itself as being the largest hop farm in the
southern hemisphere.

Another hop growing region in Australia is the
southern state of Victoria.

UKRAINE
ZHYTOMYR HOP GROWING REGION (19.)
Settlers from Bohemia, who settled here at the
invitation of the Russian Tsar after 1868, brought the
tradition of hop growing to the area around the town
of Zhytomyr in north-western Ukraine. Cultivated
aromatic hops therefore have their origin in Czech
hops. In view of the relatively short tradition and
the local character of the production, monuments
similar to the Žatec ensemble of historical industrial
hop structures did not develop and have not been
preserved in Zhytomyr.

RUSSIA
CHUVASH HOP GROWING REGION – CHEBOKSARY (20.)
The city of Cheboksary, capital of Chuvashia, located
on the Volga River in the European part of the Russian
Federation, is the centre of the region. After the World
War II, it began to give more support to hop growing for Hop field with an original way of anchoring side inclined columns,
Altai, Russia, 2006