twenty-five-thousander
English
editEtymology
editFrom twenty-five thousand + -er, a calque of Russian Двадцатипятитысячники (Dvadcatipjatitysjačniki).
Noun
edittwenty-five-thousander (plural twenty-five-thousanders)
- (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.