voskresnik

A Sunday designated for community volunteer work, such as cleaning the streets, after the October Revolution in Russia.

It is necessary to use such forms of sponsorship help as subbotniki and voskresniki [work without pay donated to the state on weekends], more intensively and rationally.

The activities of the committees also include the organization of unpaid work days (subbotniki and voskresniki) to build and repair schools, health care institutions, roads and other communal facilities.

One who took part in this work.

It was young boys and girls in their teens, through their vast organization, the Komsomol, who initiated the movement of the Voskresniki, or voluntary Sunday workers, which was tried out for the first time on Sunday, August 16, 1941.

During World War II, the KS and voskresniki (Sunday volunteers) are said to have inspired the war effort.

A member of a Russian sect of Sunday observers.

The Molokane split into Subbotniki (Saturday-observers) and Voskresniki (Sunday-observers). […] Within the Voskresniki, a group following Maksim Popov, a peasant of Samara, organized a colony practicing primitive communism, which did not last long.

The Subbotniki (Sabbatarians), for example, adhere to many Jewish observances and accept Jesus only as a prophet. In this, they differ from the predominant Voskresniki (Sunday observers).

Alternative letter-case form of voskresnik.