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

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

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

I would hide it on the way to the kolkhoz office.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys