inogorodnie

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian иногоро́дние (inogoródnije) meaning "people from another village".

Noun

inogorodnie pl (plural only)

1. (historical) Non-Cossack immigrants to Cossack-controlled land in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
   • 1953, Joseph Stalin, Works - Volume 4, page 415:

     There is no need to mention the inogorodnie, who were and remain loyal sons of Soviet Russia, and whose interests the Soviet Government will always staunchly defend.

   • 1987, Robert H McNeal, Tsar And Cossack 1855-1914, →ISBN, pages 10–11:

     By 1910, slightly over half the population on Cossack land was non-Cossack, the inogorodnie.

   • 2005, Dinah Shelton, Encyclopedia of genocide and crimes against humanity, →ISBN:

     To equalize newly arrived Inogorodnie with the Cossacks in land and in all other relations.