sovkhoz

[sov-kawz]

noun

plural

sovkhozy, sovkhoz, sovkhozes. 

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

sovkhoz

/ sɒfˈkɒz, safˈxɔs /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of sovkhoz¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of sovkhoz¹

C20: Russian, from sovetskoe khozyaistvo soviet economy

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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The Lenin Sovkhoz provides fruit and vegetables to Moscow’s upscale supermarkets, which cater round-the-clock to people willing to pay a premium for fresh produce. Grudinin, who told Solovyov that his income this year was 20 million rubles, or about $351,000, says his workers make about $1,370 per month, more than double the Russian average, and are guaranteed medical care, children’s education and housing. 

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Grudinin can show them something neither Navalny nor Putin can: the Lenin Sovkhoz, a former Soviet collective farm he has built into a “socialist oasis in the capitalist jungle of suburban Moscow,” as he put it recently.

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