Sovkhoz

1932 Socialist Realism painting, "In a pig-breeding sovkhoz" (Petr Stroev)
Headquarters of the "Leninugol" sovkhoz, Kemerovo Oblast.
Students from the Kazakh Agricultural Institute at the Novopokrovsky sovkhoz, 1991.

A sovkhoz[a] (‹The template Lang-rus is being considered for deletion.› Russian: совхо́з, IPA: [sɐfˈxos] , abbreviated from советское хозяйство, sovetskoye khozyaystvo; Ukrainian: радгосп, romanizedradhósp, abbreviated from радянское господарство, radyanskoe hospodarstvo, literally state farm) was a form of state-owned farm or agricultural enterprise in the Soviet Union.[1]

It is usually contrasted with kolkhoz, which is a collective-owned farm. Just as the members of a kolkhoz were called "kolkhozniks" or "kolkhozniki" (колхозники), the workers of a sovkhoz were called "sovkhhozniks" or "sovkhozniki" (совхозники).


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  1. ^ "sovkhoz". Merriam Webster.

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