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

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

New rules let kolkhoz members own up to six hundred reindeer, rather than demanding all animals become collective property.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

A few hundred feet from the Dulls' house are two privately run greenhouses, set up by a five-man rental group that recently entered into an agreement with the kolkhoz to grow cucumbers and tomatoes.

From Time Magazine Archive

We began a slow procession toward the kolkhoz office, dragging our belongings.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys