Sokha

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In Kievan Rus', a sokha (Russian: соха) was a light wooded plough which could be pulled by one horse.

A characteristic feature of its construction is the bifurcated plowing tip (рассоха), so that a sokha has two plowshares, later made of metal, which cut the soil. Sokha is an evolution of a scratch-plough by an addition of a spade-like detail which turns the cut soil over. (In regular ploughs the curved mouldboard both cuts and turns the soil.) Other details of construction may vary.

[edit] References

• George Vernadsky. A History of Russia. (Yale University Press, 1969) (ISBN 0-300-00247-5).