Stakhanovite

[ stuh-kah-nuh-vahyt, -kan-uh- ]

noun
  1. a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.

adjective
  1. of or relating to a Stakhanovite or to Stakhanovism.

Origin of Stakhanovite

1
Translation of Russian stakhánovets (1935), after Alekseǐ Grigorʾevich Stakhanov (1906–77), Soviet coal miner, whose productivity was the focus of a propaganda campaign; see -ite1

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