kolkhoz

Example Sentences

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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

Each artel would become a kolkhoz, or collective farm, where workers owned their means of production, and eventually a sovkhoz, the state farm, with centralized ownership and quotas.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

Iatgyrgin was sixteen years old in 1940, when his family entered the Polar Star kolkhoz, in Beryozovo.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

In order to be paid well, people should work full steam, since the kolkhoz has no other resources but their work.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You have to collect your ration coupon at the kolkhoz office.”

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys