kolkhoz

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Many had fallen into a slowly degrading limbo: The kolkhoz, or collective farm, that once stood in the heart of Senkivka was abandoned, graffiti on its walls warning that the building was liable to collapse.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2022

Five years later, Iatgyrgin returned from spring pasture to his kolkhoz, Polar Star, to find that families were starving.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

On the Omvaam River, a Chukchi man named Tymnenentyn was one of the first to join the Amgeuma kolkhoz.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

The kolkhoz manager is always a cross between Paul Bunyan and Luther Burbank, and his sterling example inspires glorious acts of self-sacrifice from the lowliest peasant.

From Time Magazine Archive

I sat at a table in the kolkhoz office.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys