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
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
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
"Seventeen years after the war we are still fighting on the farm for every pound of bread," exclaims Anany Egorovich Mysovsky, chairman of the fictional New Life kolkhoz in Abramov's tale, entitled Round and About.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were on a kolkhoz, a collective farm, and I was to become a beet farmer.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
