Word: dachnik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet Russia, the commuter is called a dachnik. In Chekhov's day he was strictly a summer bird, flitting back and forth to a rustic cottage in the city's fringing forests. In modern, jampacked Moscow, he is more and more a year-rounder, living in the country because he has no place else to live, and commuting, like the U.S. suburbanite (see BUSINESS), by train-the 8:02 elektrichka...
When at last he staggers in through his front door and deposits his load, the dachnik, instead of relaxing in an easy chair, must swing an ax or carry water: most dachas are heated with wood stoves, and the plumbing is openly arrived...
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