udarnik

English

Etymology

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

Noun

udarnik (plural udarniks or udarniki)

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

   Synonym: Stakhanovite

   • 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, 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

shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc — see also Stakhanovite

Armenian: հարվածային (hy) (harvacayin) Azerbaijani: zərbəçi Belarusian: уда́рнік m (udárnik), уда́рніца f (udárnica) Bulgarian: уда́рник (bg) m (udárnik) Chinese: Mandarin: 突擊手 / 突击手 (zh) (tūjīshǒu) (also in Chinese context) Czech: úderník (cs) m Dutch: stootarbeider m Finnish: iskurityöläinen, iskuruus French: oudarnik (fr) m, ouvrier de choc m Georgian: დამკვრელი (damḳvreli) German: Stoßarbeiter m, Stoßarbeiterin f, Udarnik m Greek: ουντάρνικος (ountárnikos) Ingrian: udarnikka, udarnitsa (female) Italian: udarnik Kazakh: екпінді (ekpındı) Kyrgyz: ударник (ky) (udarnik), эпкиндүү (ky) (epkindüü) Latvian: trieciennieks Ossetian: хъазуатон (qazwaton) Polish: przodownik pracy m Portuguese: trabalhador de choque m Romanian: fruntaș (ro) Russian: уда́рник (ru) m (udárnik), уда́рница (ru) f (udárnica), передови́к произво́дства m (peredovík proizvódstva) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ударник Roman: udarnik (sh) m Swedish: stötbrigadist c Tatar: ударник (udarnik) Ukrainian: уда́рник m (udárnyk), уда́рниця f (udárnycja) Uzbek: zarbdor (uz)

Further reading

• udarnik on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ùdārnīk m anim (Cyrillic spelling у̀да̄рнӣк)

1. (historical) udarnik
   • 1976, Grupa »Sunce«, Himna akcijaša:

     Šamac-Sarajevo
     ponos je i dika:
     to je delo ruku
     mladih udarnika!

     The Šamac-Sarajevo [railway]
     is our pride and glory:
     that is the work of the hands
     of the young udarniks!

Declension

Declension of udarnik

	singular	plural
nominative	ùdārnīk	ùdārnīci
genitive	udarnika	udarnika
dative	udarniku	udarnicima
accusative	udarnika	udarnike
vocative	ùdārnīče	udarnici
locative	udarniku	udarnicima
instrumental	udarnikom	udarnicima

Related terms

• ùdārnica
• ùdārnički
• ùdārničkī
• ùdārnīštvo

References

• “udarnik”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025