otkhod

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian отход (otxod, “withdrawal, departure, break”).

Noun

otkhod (uncountable)

1. (historical) The exodus of Russian men from rural to industrial areas to find work outside the agricultural season.
   • 2011, Matthew J. Payne, Stalin's Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism, page 246:

     Thanks to the widespread otkhod from peasant villages, especially in construction, and Soviet managers' propensity to "storm," industrial life was not an entirely alien world to the Soviet Union's peasants.