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Answer for the clue "Kibbutz's Russian kin ", 5 letters:
artel

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Artel is a general term for various cooperative associations that existed in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union between the 1860s through 1950s. The term eventually was phased away with the complete monopolization of economy by the state. Historically, ...

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n. a unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean; varies between one and five pounds [also: artel (pl), artal (pl)]

Usage examples of artel.

We did, with Artel straddling his chair backwards the way cowboys did in movie saloons.

I had the feeling he was having trouble making up his mind whether Artel could possibly be a Klarr.

You could see the front ones slow down and frown as they made out what Artel was.

But he kept looking sideways over at a man ambling along the sidewalk, so Artel and I did too.

He shook his head violently and turned to me, because Artel had kept looking at him deadpan.

Like the others in the crowd, he was watching Artel and me, but he kept darting side-glances at Tully, too.

He went fishing with the artel fishermen, leaving Sergei and Natasha in the care of the neighbours sometimes for as long as three days.

Volumes and volumes have been written about these unions which, under the name of guilds, brotherhoods, friendships and druzhestva, minne, artels in Russia, esnaifs in Servia and Turkey, amkari in Georgia, and so on, took such a formidable development in medieval times and played such an important part in the emancipation of the cities.

Until now, many of the fishing-grounds on the tributaries of the Caspian Sea are held by immense artels, the Ural river belonging to the whole of the Ural Cossacks, who allot and re-allot the fishing-grounds--perhaps the richest in the world--among the villages, without any interference of the authorities.

Fishing is always made by artels in the Ural, the Volga, and all the lakes of Northern Russia.

Besides these permanent organizations, there are the simply countless temporary artels, constituted for each special purpose.

Fishing is always made by artels in the Ural, the Volga, and all the lakes of Northern Russia.