Dictionary

udarnik en · NOUN

Etymology

From Russian уда́рник (udárnik), from уда́р (udár, “strike, blow, shock”) + -ник (-nik).

Meanings

1. (historical) A shock worker; a super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc.
   • 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. 1934, VOKS Bulletin, Issues 7-8, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 80:
   • 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. 1968, Peter John Georgeoff, The Social Education of Bulgarian Youth, Univ. of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 89:
   • 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 [...] 1991, Eugene Lyons, Assignment in Utopia, page 208:

Forms

Synonyms

Stakhanovite

Translations (38)

ro fruntaș (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · ky эпкиндүү (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · de Stoßarbeiterin (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · uk уда́рниця (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · hy հարվածային (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · pl przodownik pracy (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · uk уда́рник (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · kk екпінді (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · cs úderník (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · fi iskurityöläinen (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · ru передови́к произво́дства (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · de Stoßarbeiter (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · lv trieciennieks (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · fi iskuruus (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · az zərbəçi (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · os хъазуатон (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · ru уда́рница (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · ky ударник (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · be уда́рніца (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · fr ouvrier de choc (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · sv stötbrigadist (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · bg уда́рник (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · tt ударник (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · cmn 突擊手 /突击手 (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · sh ударник (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · be уда́рнік (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · nl stootarbeider (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · izh udarnitsa (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · it udarnik (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · pt trabalhador de choque (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · sh udarnik (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · ru уда́рник (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · uz zarbdor (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · el ουντάρνικος (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · izh udarnikka (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · fr oudarnik (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · ka დამკვრელი (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite) · de Udarnik (shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite)