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

Where herders were convinced to merge their reindeer, kolkhoz herds were so small and supplies so short that the collectives never got off the ground.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

Instead of a small onion bed he had a real onion plantation, much better than the ones on the kolkhoz.

From Time Magazine Archive

The temperatures inched just above freezing according to a thermometer outside the kolkhoz office.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys