English

Noun

udarnik ‎(plural udarniks or udarniki)

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

   • 1934, VOKS Bulletin, Issues 7-8, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 80:

     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.

   • 1968, Peter John Georgeoff, The Social Education of Bulgarian Youth, Univ. of Minnesota Press, ISBN 9780816604791, page 89:

     The account that follows appears in the alphabet book and first reader: Udarnik / Stefka Filipova is a weaver … She weaves faster and better than anyone else. For this reason she is a udarnik.

   • 1991, Eugene Lyons, Assignment in Utopia, page 208:

     The brigadiers, or udarniki, worked harder, wasted less time and set an example for their more indolent or less ... Udarniki became a class apart on any job, compensated for their brigadiering by extra rations, priority in the distribution of deficit goods [...]

Translations

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Russian уда́рник ‎(udárnik). Compare ùdariti and ȕdār.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǔdaːrniːk/
• Hyphenation: u‧dar‧nik

Noun

ùdārnīk m ‎(Cyrillic spelling у̀да̄рнӣк)

1. (historical) udarnik

Declension

Related terms

References

• “udarnik” in Hrvatski jezični portal