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[dezelina.livejournal.com]

Dear all,

What does the word губкома mean. I am researching in both Ukrainian and Russian, and I can't find it in either of my dictionaries.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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[huzhepidarasa.livejournal.com]

губком = губернский комитет (партии большевиков)

[aromanov.livejournal.com]

губком is губернский комитет, province committee.

[khathi.livejournal.com]

"Губкома" is the genitive of "губком" -- "губернский комитет/комиссариат" ("governorate committee/commissariat"), Civil War-era Russian being inordinateli fond of abbreviations.

[vld-sergio-jr.livejournal.com]

Губком is short phrases губернский комитет - province committee. Губерния means the province of the Russian Empire - before 1917 and n the early years of the Soviet republic...

[darth-biomech.livejournal.com]

I am russian, but I dont know this word either. 0_o

[serpent-849.livejournal.com]

me neither :D
i know many words like this from history lessons at school but not this one:O

[byram.livejournal.com]

Темнота :-)

[oryx_and_crake]

Thanks for your contribution. However, I have to remind that the working language of this community is English. It is OK to occasionally post in Russian if you provide an English translation. Thank you.

[oryx_and_crake]

Thanks for your contribution. However, I have to remind that the working language of this community is English. It is OK to occasionally post in Russian if you provide an English translation. Thank you.

[oryx_and_crake]

Your not knowing this word is surely a very important fact of which all the community must be made aware. Please note that this community was created to help people who learn Russian, and not to provide a space where native Russian speakers can socialize in English. Thank you for your understanding.

[mithrilian.livejournal.com]

In the early years of the Soviet Russia they loved to make up new words. Acronyms were popular, and another method was губ(ернский)+ком(итет)=губком. Кол(лективное)+хоз(яйство)=колхоз, раб(оче)-кр(естьянская)+ин(спекция)=рабкрин, раб(очий)+фак(культет)=рабфак etc. Some were short-lived other prevailed. Your word originates from the 1920s, because губерния is administrative district - from the same root as govern, governor. In fact governor=губернатор. Губернии were scrapped somewhere by the end of 1920s and were resurrected sometime in the 1990s after USSR fell apart.

[mithrilian.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the English mistakes, am not in the best form...

[nowhere-person.livejournal.com]

Actually acronym-making became popular already in the late Russian empire, especially in view of the world war, like главком or земгор.

[dekarmi.livejournal.com]

I'll not tell you this. So, you'll have to remain unaware.

[ekaterina-80.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Anyway, this word is not very popular! ))))))))

[oryx_and_crake]

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