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Glossary entry

Russian term or phrase:

Ударник труда

English translation:

shock worker (traditional translation); champion worker (another suggestion)

Added to glossary by Rachel Douglas
Mar 16, 2011 22:36
13 yrs ago
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Russian term

Ударник труда

Russian to English Art/Literary Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
Мама работала ответственно, увлеченно, все на работе уважали ее, и была она "ударником труда."
Proposed translations (English)
4 +5 shock worker
3 +3 champion worker
5 outstanding performer; people who perform outstandingly (in industry or agriculture)
3 +1 strike-worker
Change log

Mar 30, 2011 04:27: Rachel Douglas Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

+5
5 mins
Selected

shock worker

Especially where the original encourages you to put it in quotation marks, you might use this good old, slightly weird sounding, traditional translation.
Peer comment(s):
agree GaryG
1 min
Thanks, Gary.
agree Jurate Kazlauskaite
14 mins
Thanks, Jurate.
agree Jack Doughty
17 mins
Thanks, Jack.
neutral Kiwiland Bear : One problem with this is that it used to be an official title. There was even a medal called that (with the added word "socialist" in the middle). I find it hard to imagine a medal with the words "shock [socialist/capitalist] worker" on it.
2 hrs
Thanks, I'm aware. Lucky the medals were in Russian, not in that slightly weird sounding Eng. Search "shock worker medal" to see that Sov regalia collectors call them exactly that. It's the traditional translation of the offical title + in general.
agree cyhul
10 hrs
agree daruuntje (X)
4 days
Thank you.
neutral Maria Sergeeva : This may be a perfect translation, only problem being that it seems antiquated enough to have lost wide understanding in the public. I just did a quick survey of the office and only one had heard of it, but forgotten what it meant..
5 days
I think it's not a question of being "antiquated." The English-speaking public never had "wide understanding" of it in the old days, either, unless they were Soviet specialists. Actually, it used to be put in quotation marks then, too, for that reason.
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+3
1 hr

champion worker

a possibility
Example sentence:

There were champion workers called Stakhanovites, named after a coal miner who broke the record for the amount of coal dug up in a single shift.

Reference:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/russia/stalinfiveyearplansrev1.shtml

Peer comment(s):
agree Russian to Engl
17 hrs
Thank you.
agree LanaUK : I like this version a lot more :)
2 days 14 hrs
Thank you.
agree Maria Sergeeva : Agreed! I suppose alternate versions may exist in specific circles, but to the general public, it would seem this is far more understandable.
5 days
Thank you for support.
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+1
9 hrs

strike-worker

or (model of) a hard-worker, a hard-working woman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udarnik
Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udarnik

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Alija_Sirotanovic

Peer comment(s):
agree olegkote
369 days
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369 days

outstanding performer; people who perform outstandingly (in industry or agriculture)

"Ударник труда" dates back to the Soviet era. About 25 years ago, Time magazine described them as "people who perform outstandingly (in industry or agriculture)
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