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- Russian · calque ofдвадцатипятитысячники
- English todaytwenty-five-thousander
From twenty-five thousand + -er, a calque of Russian двадцатипятитысячники (dvadcatipjatitysjačniki).
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twenty-five-thousander
Today it means: One of the approximately 25,000 industrial workers who voluntarily left their homes to do rural work in the kolkhozes in the USSR in the early 1930s. Full definition →
Russian двадцатипятитысячники