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English translation: under the Komsomol (Young Communist League) job assignments

09:56 Jan 16, 2012
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Government / Politics
Russian term or phrase: по комсомольским путевкам
Именно из пограничных войск СССР **по комсомольским путевкам** в Сибирь направляли отслуживших ребят на строительство нового алюминиевого завода.

I find various possible meanings for путевка. How do you understand it here?
Dylan Edwards
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:03
English translation:under the Komsomol (Young Communist League) job assignments
Explanation:
More than 200,000 Komsomol members went to the construction sites on assignment from their organizations. Among the projects completed with the active participation of the Komsomol were the Dneproges power station, the Moscow and Gorky automobile plants, the Stalingrad tractor plant, the Magnitogorsk metallurgical combine, and the Turksib railroad. By a decree of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR on Jan. 21, 1931, the VLKSM was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor “for initiative shown in expanding shock work and socialist competition, helping to assure the successful completion of the five-year plan for the development of national economy.”
See: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Komsomol
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Alexander Kondorsky
Russian Federation
Local time: 10:03
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Thank you!
I stayed close to your version.
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1responding to the call of Komsomol orgфтшяфешщ
Alexandra Taggart
4 +1under the Komsomol (Young Communist League) job assignments
Alexander Kondorsky
4job placement
Dmitry Kornyukhov
4(sent) by the Komsomol...
ViBe
3job referral issued by Komsomol organization
Elena Kuznetsova
3on assignment with the Komsomol (Young Communist League)
Sam Pinson
Summary of reference entries provided
FYI
Dmitry Kornyukhov

  

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job referral issued by Komsomol organization


Explanation:
Something like that

Elena Kuznetsova
Russian Federation
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under the Komsomol (Young Communist League) job assignments


Explanation:
More than 200,000 Komsomol members went to the construction sites on assignment from their organizations. Among the projects completed with the active participation of the Komsomol were the Dneproges power station, the Moscow and Gorky automobile plants, the Stalingrad tractor plant, the Magnitogorsk metallurgical combine, and the Turksib railroad. By a decree of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR on Jan. 21, 1931, the VLKSM was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor “for initiative shown in expanding shock work and socialist competition, helping to assure the successful completion of the five-year plan for the development of national economy.”
See: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Komsomol

Alexander Kondorsky
Russian Federation
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Thank you!
I stayed close to your version.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks. I'm inclined to say "work assignments".


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agree  cyhul
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job placement


Explanation:
I think in your context "путевка" means "job placement"
Please read the reference information.

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Note added at 21 mins (2012-01-16 10:17:50 GMT)
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or you can use: Komsomol "trip ticket", using quotes for "trip ticket", cause it's not actually a trip, rather than a job placement issued by Komsomol organization, however, this "trip ticket" will help you to render the full meaning of the Russian original

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Note added at 24 mins (2012-01-16 10:21:13 GMT)
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Traveling on a Komsomol trip ticket to the projects in the North,. Siberia, the East, and the virgin lands is a high honor for a member of the VLKSM and a high...
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA365769

Dmitry Kornyukhov
Canada
Local time: 03:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian

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neutral  Alexander Kondorsky: а как же колорит оригинала?
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(sent) by the Komsomol...


Explanation:
Не думаю, что западному читателю нужны все эти бюрократические подробности с путевками, справками и проездными документами. Важен принцип: партия и комсомол приказали – ты и поехал. А юридическое оформление и сопровождение этого подвижничества современному читателю едва ли интересно. Если, конечно, это публицистический или художественный текст, а не заключение ревизиров финансового управления Погранвойск РФ.

ViBe
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on assignment with the Komsomol (Young Communist League)


Explanation:
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    https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22on+assignment+with%22
Sam Pinson
United States
Local time: 01:03
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neutral  Alexandra Taggart: I do not ague with Wiki, she is unbiassed. But, the Komsomol army(a heard of komsomolians) were simply younger than the Lenin's party army.You were ought to be a komsomolian before you joined CPSU.This preliminary step was a threshold to a further slavery
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  -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Communist_League
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responding to the call of Komsomol orgфтшяфешщ


Explanation:
Only the best of the best could get a recomendation letter and be appointed (get Komsomol appointment - путёвка) to participate in the greatest projects of all.
http://nazarenepastor.org/ClergyEducation/defaultc36a.html?t...

Alexandra Taggart
Russian Federation
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ViBe: nice thinking; I like the emphasis on the symbolic/figurative aspect. (I'd skip "organization," though, unless you mean a particular (cellular/regional...) organization of what was an all-Union Lleague, which I guess you don't.)
1 hr
  -> Thank you!"League" is too a "kind" word for something that was absolutely obligatory:you couldn' say "no" when Komsomol called you.Lenin's party used patriotic emotional propaganda for their own plans.
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Reference comments


4 mins peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: FYI

Reference information:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Комсомольская_путёвка

Dmitry Kornyukhov
Canada
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
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Asker: Thank you! Useful info.


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agree  Alexandra Taggart
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  -> Thanks!
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