Tractor operator

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Tractor operator at the machine-tractor station Isseroda (Weimar district), 1953
Arkadi Plastow : " Evening meal from tractor drivers", painting 1951, Tretyakov Gallery
(postage stamp from 1973)

In the USSR and the German Democratic Republic, tractor driver was a term for drivers in collective farms or agricultural production cooperatives (LPG) who did their harvesting work with agricultural machinery , mostly tractors of the brands Progress Agricultural Machinery or Belarus . This term was also used for combine harvesters .

The term, which appeared around 1948, is a borrowing from Russian Тракторист .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred W. Hellmann: Words and Word Usage in East and West , Gunther Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 1992, p. 1120 ( online at Google Books )