kolkhoz

Examples

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• In order to lighten the work of the women, we've built laundromats in our kolkhoz and installed gas...

  Fiction book (1996)

• In 1947, a fishing kolkhoz was founded in Mangalsala that merged two previous occupational institutions: the societies of the Mangali and Daugavgrīva fishermen.

  Academic text (2016)

• The new director of the newly formed kolkhoz did not leave the position of cultural director vacant, as he had filled the others.

  Fiction book (1996)

• "I'm off to work at the kolkhoz," her husband said, "amen," to conclude the breakfast and got up from his place.

  Fiction book (1996)

• They had succeeded in establishing a farm in a district where the kolkhoz system was not very strict.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The fish processing plant, established in the former kolkhoz territory, was ranked among the twelve largest air polluters of Riga in 2006.

  Academic text (2016)

• The year that Meret Agha finished studying in the Culture Department at the technical school, the kolkhoz, which comprised several villages, was broken up, so that each village became a separate collective farm.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Besides, the kolkhoz had developed a successful system of social benefits for its employees, including travel abroad and a rich cultural life of festivals and corporate parties, particularly warmly remembered by fishermen's wives.

  Academic text (2016)

• In the 1970s, the membership of the kolkhoz had increased to 1,500 (Pintans 1978) and also absorbed other fishing communities located on the lower Daugava.

  Academic text (2016)

• The workers at the kolkhoz gathered early in the morning to plant crops together.

Synonyms

S

sovkhoz

vskolkhoz

• Archaic

1 9.9

A large farm that the government owns and runs in the former Soviet Union

is owned and run by the state rather than employing workers directly

Surface Forms

Etymology