Dacha

Dacha (Russian: ?????) is a name for summer home or vacation house in Russia and CIS countries where people spend their summer holidays and grow fruit and vegetables for their own use. Dachas of the middle class sometimes has separate banyas (Russian, sing.: ????? — sauna) attached to the house. The house is usually wooden or rarely brick and nearly always hand-built.

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In archaic Russian, the word 'dacha' used to mean 'something given' as 'dachas' were estates given to loyal vassals by the Tsar. The common term for a dacha farmer is 'dachnik' (Russian: ???????).

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