LOCUST INVASIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE DURING THE 18th CENTURY: SPECIFICS OF PERCEPTION, ECONOMIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONSEQUENCES
Based on a wide range of archival materials and contemporaries' memoirs, the paper considers the effects of the invasion of locusts on the socio-economic and political life of Eastern Europe. Special attention is paid to the influence of the disaster on the provision of military units in the territory of Left-Bank Ukraine