What is "dachas"

Usage examples of "dachas".

He wondered for a moment whether he was being led into a trap - then he sensed that the meeting-place was to be one of the many wooden dachas built in the Arkhangelskoe district -summer and week-end homes for prominent members of the Party and the bureaucracy.

SID had investigated, in its time, a number of peculiar reports concerning social and personal behaviour in dachas like the ones dotted through the woods.