twenty-five-thousander

English

Etymology

From twenty-five thousand +‎ -er, a calque of Russian Двадцатипятитысячники (Dvadcatipjatitysjačniki).

Noun

twenty-five-thousander (plural twenty-five-thousanders)

1. (historical) One of the approximately 25,000 industrial workers who voluntarily left their homes to do rural work in the kolkhozes in the USSR in the early 1930s.