silrada

Noun

silrada (plural silrady)

1. A місце́ва ра́да (mistseva rada) centred in a village (село́) or, historically, a rural-type settlement (се́лище [сільсько́го ти́пу]); a Ukrainian selsoviet.
   • silʹrada (Russian selʹsovet) — short for silʹsʹka rada (selʹskii sovet), village soviet or council.[1988, Commission on the Ukraine Famine, “Glossary of Terms” (pages 229–232), in Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine, 1932–1933: Report to Congress, Washington: United States Government Printing...
   • Further changes were made during the 1920s, and in 1932 the territorial-administrative system underwent a major change. The units of the new, three-tiered system that were introduced — the oblast (province), raion (county), and the silska rada or silrada — the name not only of a rural district, but...2007, John D. Pihach, “Locating the Ancestral Home” (chapter 7, pages 83–123), in Ukrainian Genealogy: A Beginner’s Guide (paperback), Edmonton · Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies...
   1. A Ukrainian collegial body charged with the administration of one or more rural inhabited localities and its or their associated territory; a Ukrainian rural council.
      • That evening the head of the Community (Silrada) came to us and advised us to stop further work and either enter the army on the spot or quickly return to Kiev.1956 December, Петро́ Коли́мський [pseudonym, Petro Kolymsky], “The Kolyma Prisoner After His Release” (pages 350–359), in The Ukrainian Quarterly, volume XII, number 4, New York: Ukrainian Congress...
      • In the morning they received permission from the ‘Silʹrada’ (The Village Council) and were ready to transfer the body to their cemetery.1985, Атана́сій Васи́ль Пе́кар, ЧСВВ [Athanasius Basil Pekar, OSBM], “Peter Oros — Our Martyred Priest (1917–1953)” (chapter xii, pages 67–70), in “You Shall Be Witnesses Unto Me”: Contribution to...
   2. The municipal building in which a Ukrainian rural council holds its meetings and conducts its business; a Ukrainian village hall.
      • The author’s task in the second play “Come to Dzvonkove” is to show the post-war reconstruction. He, however, shows only the magnificent plans of this. The authorities of the village Dzvonkove plan to build a general hospital, drugstore, radio broadcasting station, library, school of agronomy...1950 Summer, Богда́н Романенчу́к [Bohdan Romanenchuk], “Ten Years of Soviet Literature in Ukraine” (pages 246–252), in The Ukrainian Quarterly, volume VI, number 3, New York: Ukrainian Congress...
      • "Dekulakization happened like this: They came and all went to the silʹrada, where there was some kind of meeting, to which the people all went and were told to sign up for the kolhosp. Well, some did sign up, because there was no way out, because they had the power to force people, and they forced...1990, James Earnest Mace, Leonid Heretz, “Anonymous male, b. 1924, Strokova, Pereiaslav, Kiev” (Case History SW20, pages 823–827), in Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine, 1932–1933: Oral History...
   3. (historical outside the Crimea) The administrative–territorial unit headed by such a Ukrainian rural council.
      • All that is written here by Dmytro Solovey about what took place in 1929 through 1933 in the Fediyiv Silrada, Reshetilivski District, Poltavschyna (about collectivization, arrests, expropriation and the horrors of the famine) has been written as dictated by me, and is completely in accord with what...1953, Степа́н Миха́йлович Шуме́йко [Stephen Shumeyko], The Golgotha of Ukraine: Eye-witness Accounts of the Famine in Ukraine Instigated and Fostered by the Kremlin in an Attempt to Quell Ukrainian...
      • Although the figures for 1926 refer to different administrative areas (okruhy, raiony and silrady, and in the Western Ukraine — povity, zbirni hromady, hromady) the fact that these are comparatively small units has made it possible to relate 1926 figures to the present administrative areas.1959, Володи́мир Миха́йлович Кубійо́вич [V. Kubiyovych], “Changes in the Population of the Ukrainian SSR (1927–1958)” (article 2, pages 6–20), in Ukrainian Review, № 8, Munich: Institute for the...