Noun: udarnik
| Singular | udarnik |
| Plural | udarniks; udarniki |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like udarnik
sexvir,
sejmik,
sazhen,
signor,
podstakannik,
Voskresnik,
edinolichnik,
bolshevik,
bogatyr,
boublik,
Poleshuk,
sbornik,
refusnik,
ponchik,
Minim,
promyshlennik,
septemvir,
otkaznik,
silovik,
udarnik, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Russian уда́рник (udárnik), from уда́р (udár, “strike, blow, shock”) + -ник (-nik).