barin

plural barins

1. Synonym of boyar.

   There is Russian saying - Muzhik was angry at barin but barin did not even know about that

   2010 January 5, daniloff, “Has Russia to demand compensation from Latvia?”, in soc.culture.baltics (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2025

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   Do not take him away, for he is a Barin, and yet he seeks to understand the mujik, and that also is a new thing.

   1927, Theodore Acland Harper with Winifred Harper, “Under the Water Tower”, in Siberian Gold, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 326

   As a matter of "education (or re-education)" of his farmers, a landlord (barin) was demonstrating them a new plough he has purchased in Germany. The farmers (mouzhiki) watched silently and attentively. Then one of them said: - Barin, is this plough from Germany? - Yes. - That Germany which buys grain in Russia? - Yes. - Where are they going to buy grain, once we'll have started ploughing their way?

   1992 September 6, Mark Markish x2799, “Organic Russia”, in soc.culture.soviet (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2025

   Synonyms: boyar

1. A town in Payzawat, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   Village chiefs from Barin township, in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture’s Peyziwat (Jiashi) county, recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service that hundreds of the Islamic holy books printed before 2012 had been seized since authorities issued an order recalling them on Jan. 15.

   2017, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Confiscate ‘Extremist’ Qurans From Uyghur Muslims”, in Mamatjan Juma, Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia

2. A township in Akto, Kizilsu, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   In 1990, an uprising in Barin town resulted in a clash between Uyghurs and police.

   1999, Soledad A Hernando, Emergent Institutions in Asia: Cases and Concepts, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 87

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   The counter-revolutionary armed riot which took place in the Barin town of Aktu County on April 5, 1990 was a well-planned, well-organized and premeditated violent act of a small number of reactionaries and ethnic separatists hidden in Barin. Cloaked in religion, they deceived and forced some blind-minded public to take part in their plot to destroy national unity and overthrow the government. The riot was a rare and the most serious incident carried out by the ethnic separatists since the liberation of Xinjiang.

   1998, Zhang Yumo, “THE ANTI-SEPARATISM STRUGGLE AND ITS HISTORICAL LESSONS SINCE THE LIBERATION OF XINJIANG”, in Turdi Ghoja, transl., Uyghur American Association, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2019

   Uighur discontent rumbled on for many years but the acknowledged turning point was the Barin uprising of 1990, when Afghan-trained Islamists set up loudspeakers in mosques in the villages of Barin and Turand and broadcast speeches praising jihad.¹³ The local police were attacked and their weapons seized, at which point the Chinese government responded decisively. Its overreaction to the Barin uprising only served to attract more Uighurs to the separatist Islamist banner:

   2003, Rohan Gunaratna, Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 230

   1990 On April 5, a group of terrorists, aided and abetted by the "East Turkistan Islamic Party," created a grave terrorist incident in Barin Township, Akto County, Xinjiang.

   2009, “Full Text: The History and Development of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps”, in China Internet Information Center, page 1

   On April 5,1990, a group of terrorists, aided and abetted by the "East Turkistan Islamic Party," created a grave terrorist incident in Barin Township, Akto County, Xinjiang.

   2010, J. Todd Reed, Diana Raschke, The ETIM: China's Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat, Praeger, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 127

   A police officer in Barin township, who declined to give his name, said officers have recently been watching the station around the clock lately because the situation in the area, which is the most sensitive part of the Kizilsu Kirghiz prefecture, remains tense.

   2017 April 12, Eset Sulaiman, Roseanne Gerin, “Authorities Urge Kyrgyz Herdsmen to Spy on Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2017

3. A township in Kargilik, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
4. A township in Shule, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
5. A village in Barin, Akto, Kizilsu, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   Thanks to this work and research experience I had the possibility to get access areas which in 2012 were still closed to foreigners and Chinese non-residents as Peizawat County, Akto County, and Barin village, to collect material and make interviews to farmers.

   2020, Alessandra Cappelletti, Socio-Economic Development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Disparities and Power Struggle in China's North-West, page viii

   Synonyms: Pa-jen