udarnik

noun

1. A shock worker; a super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc.

   historical

   Two short stories … give a true, warm and unvarnished picture of the formation of the character and consciousness of a young Komsomol worker in the heat of socialist competition and udarnik work.

Where it comes from

From Russian уда́рник (udárnik), from уда́р (udár, “strike, blow, shock”) + -ник (-nik).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry udarnik (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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