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voskresnik

voskresnik noun: a Sunday designated for community volunteer work, such as cleaning the streets, after the October Revolution in Russia.

Noun (1)

voskresnik (plural voskresniks or voskresniki)

  1. (historical) A Sunday designated for community volunteer work, such as cleaning the streets, after the October Revolution in Russia.
    • It is necessary to use such forms of sponsorship help as subbotniki and voskresniki [work without pay donated to the state on weekends], more intensively and rationally.1980 September 12, A[ugusts] E[duardovich] Voss, translated by Joint Publications Research Service, “Voss on Latvian Economy, Brezhnev Phone Conversation”, in USSR Report: Political and Sociological...
    • The activities of the committees also include the organization of unpaid work days (subbotniki and voskresniki) to build and repair schools, health care institutions, roads and other communal facilities.1986 June 23, A.P. Strogov, translated by Joint Publications Research Service, “Committees for the Defense of the Sandinist Revolution”, in USSR Report: International Affairs (JPRS-UIA-86-030)...
  2. (historical) One who took part in this work.
    • It was young boys and girls in their teens, through their vast organization, the Komsomol, who initiated the movement of the Voskresniki, or voluntary Sunday workers, which was tried out for the first time on Sunday, August 16, 1941.1943 August, Madelin Blitzstein, “Youth Fights for Russia”, in Coburn Gilman, editor, Travel, volume 81, number 4, East Stroudsburg, Pa.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, page 11, column 1
    • During World War II, the KS and voskresniki (Sunday volunteers) are said to have inspired the war effort.2004, Steven Rosefielde, “Subbotnik”, in James R[obert] Millar, editor, Encyclopedia of Russian History, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Reference USA, →ISBN, page 1492, column 1
  3. (capitalized, often) A member of a Russian sect of Sunday observers.
    • The Molokane split into Subbotniki (Saturday-observers) and Voskresniki (Sunday-observers). […] Within the Voskresniki, a group following Maksim Popov, a peasant of Samara, organized a colony practicing primitive communism, which did not last long.1968, Donald W[arren] Treadgold, “The Peasant and Religion”, in Wayne S[piro] Vucinich, editor, The Peasant in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC...
    • The Subbotniki (Sabbatarians), for example, adhere to many Jewish observances and accept Jesus only as a prophet. In this, they differ from the predominant Voskresniki (Sunday observers).1981, Anton S[erge] Beliajeff, “Molokane”, in Joseph L[eon] Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, volume 23 […], Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press...

Noun (2) capitalized: Voskresnik

Voskresnik (plural Voskresniks or Voskresniki)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of voskresnik.

Examples of voskresnik in a sentence

  • In the Soviet era it was common for working people to be sent on voluntary work sessions on Saturday and Sunday (subbotniki and voskresniki) to carry out community work.2016, Andrew Bromfield, Rose France, Anthony Hippisley, “The Diary of Misha Tikhomirov”, in Children of War: Diaries 1941–1945, Moscow...
  • It was this euphoria that brought the voskresniks in their thousands to help clear the parks and sort through the rubble, and which brought the crowds into the streets to cheer Samson on his way.2005, Christopher Morgan, Irina Orlova, “The Leningrad Affair”, in Saving the Tsar’s Palaces, Clifton upon Teme, Worcestershire: Polperro...

Forms of voskresnik

pluralvoskresniks
pluralvoskresniki
alternative formVoskresnik
pluralVoskresniks
pluralVoskresniki

Origin of voskresnik

From Russian воскре́сник (voskrésnik), from Russian воскресе́нье (voskresénʹje, “Sunday”) + -ник (-nik).

Questions about voskresnik

What does voskresnik mean?
Voskresnik means a Sunday designated for community volunteer work, such as cleaning the streets, after the October Revolution in Russia.
How do you use voskresnik in a sentence?
In the Soviet era it was common for working people to be sent on voluntary work sessions on Saturday and Sunday (subbotniki and voskresniki) to carry out community work.
What part of speech is voskresnik?
Voskresnik is a noun.
What is the plural of voskresnik?
The plural of voskresnik is voskresniks.

Words near voskresnik in the dictionary

  1. Voshell
  2. Voshells
  3. VoSIP
  4. Voskanyan
  5. Voskanyans
  6. voskresnik
  7. voskresniki
  8. voskresniks
  9. Vosmaer's eclectus
  10. Vosnesensk
  11. vosoritide

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