Udarnik

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A shock worker; a super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc. historical

    "Two short stories … give a true, warm and unvarnished picture of the formation of the character and consciousness of a young Komsomol worker in the heat of socialist competition and udarnik work."

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shock workerstakhanovite

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"Two short stories … give a true, warm and unvarnished picture of the formation of the character and consciousness of a young Komsomol worker in the heat of socialist competition and udarnik work."

Etymology

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

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