silrady

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...
   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...
   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...
   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...