1.0Watch Russia - ENhttps://watchrussia.com/enadminkuznetsovahttps://watchrussia.com/en/author/adminkuznetsova/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="Ch13ZjBYYQ"><a href="https://watchrussia.com/en/land/the-crunch-of-lukhovitsy-cucumber/">The Crunch of Lukhovitsy Cucumber</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://watchrussia.com/en/land/the-crunch-of-lukhovitsy-cucumber/embed/#?secret=Ch13ZjBYYQ" width="600" height="338" title="«The Crunch of Lukhovitsy Cucumber» — Watch Russia - EN" data-secret="Ch13ZjBYYQ" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); </script> https://watchrussia.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/img_9848-copy_1-scaled.jpg17072560Natalia Li-Chan-Lin, who originally visited Lukhovitsy as a tourist, decided to promote this town in the Moscow Region, famous for its cucumbers. Ten years ago, she set up the first 20 greenhouses on the banks of the Oka River, effectively turning herself into a farmer and founding the agricultural enterprise Podmoskovny Urozhay. She shared her experiences with Watch Russia, explaining what it means to be responsible for a million cucumber plants. On Kuibyshev Street in Lukhovitsy, there’s a monument to the cucumber. Engraved on a barrel from which a cucumber protrudes reads the inscription: “Dedicated to the Feeding Cucumber”. Indeed, the humble cucumber helped locals survive the trials of the 20th century: thousands of small plots yielded fresh cucumbers in summer, pickles in winter. Yet, small farmers struggle to reach bigger markets, while the Lukhovitsy cucumber undoubtedly deserves recognition as widespread as that of Siberian dumplings or Vologda butter.