Etymology

udarnik

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Today it means: A shock worker; a super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc. Full definition →

Russian уда́рник
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The story

  1. Russian · borrowed fromуда́рник
  2. English todayudarnik

From Russian уда́рник (udárnik), from уда́р (udár, “strike, blow, shock”) + -ник (-nik).

Words from the same roots

Russianуда́рник all →

shock worker

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.