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

There were other new incentives for joining a kolkhoz: its store often provided the only source for tea, sugar, and tobacco in the area.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

Even lower was the number of herders interested in joining an artel or a kolkhoz.

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

We were on a kolkhoz, a collective farm, and I was to become a beet farmer.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys