sovkhoz

American

[sov-kawz] / ˈsɒv kɔz /

noun

(in the former U.S.S.R) a state-owned wage-paying farm.

sovkhoz British

/ sɒfˈkɒz, safˈxɔs /

noun

(in the former Soviet Union) a large mechanized farm owned by the state

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Origin of sovkhoz

First recorded in 1920–25; from Russian; blend of sovetskoe khozyaistvo “soviet farm”

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Ivan Druri arrived from Murmansk in 1929, charged with organizing Chukotka’s first sovkhoz at Snezhnoe, a settlement a hundred miles northwest of Anadyr.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2019

Each artel would become a kolkhoz, or collective farm, where workers owned their means of production, and eventually a sovkhoz, the state farm, with centralized ownership and quotas.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2019

State farms, modeled after the sovkhozes of the Soviet Union, were established beginning in 1945 on lands confiscated from large landowners and foreign concessionaires and contain some of the most productive land in the country.

From Area Handbook for Albania by Sarah Jane Elpern

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