stakhanovite

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Pertaining to a Stakhanovite
An extremely productive or hard-working worker, especially in the former USSR, who may earn special rewards
stakhanovite

    Hyphenation

    Sta·kha·no·vite

    Etymology

    () Named from Aleksei Grigor’evich Stakhanov (Алексей Григорьевич Стаханов), a Russian coalminer whose prodigious output was publicised by Stalin as part of a 1935 campaign.
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