цеховик

English translation: clandestine manufacturer / entrepreneur /businessmen

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Russian term or phrase:цеховик
English translation:clandestine manufacturer / entrepreneur /businessmen
Entered by: James Walker

14:26 Jul 29, 2004
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)
Russian term or phrase: цеховик
производящий "левую" продукцию силами работников с использованием государственного имущества

I understand the meaning; I just wonder if anyone has an apt translation?
James Walker
Local time: 15:37
clandestine manufacturer / entrepreneur /businessmen
Explanation:
hope this helps :)

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Ukrainian daily newspaper \"The Day\"... from Communist Party coffers: on the one hand, the Party was involved in shadow activities, but, on the other hand, there also were clandestine businessmen. ...

www.day.kiev.ua/DIGEST/2004/05/den-pln/dp1.htm


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Synthesis of Dimenoxadol... For the clandestine manufacturer (CM), this substance would have the advantage that it\'s not a controlled substance. One could also ...

www.rhodium.ws/chemistry/dimenoxadol.html


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... By selling these chemical variants (analogs), the clandestine manufacturer can profit from the distribution of dangerous compounds that can be abused, while ...

www.cnoa.org/N-05.pdf

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... was a need for this type of training because Ecstacy is a complex drug with many chemical combinations that vary, depending on the clandestine manufacturer. ...

www.fhp.state.fl.us/html/ TroopK/TroopPhoto/drugschool.html


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... the director to no longer jeopardize public health and welfare by evidenced proliferation or use in clandestine laboratories or other illicit manufacturer of a ...

www.tdcaa.com/DocumentRoot/ Proposed%20Meth%20Precursor%20Rules.doc

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... (Political activist) John Samuels [sic] told me since that . . . there was this
group of clandestine businessmen in WA who he reckons runs the country. ...

www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/cont9.htm
Selected response from:

Alexander Onishko
Grading comment
OK, I like "clandestine."
Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +1underground entrepreneur (owner of black-market underground factories)
Sergey Strakhov
4clandestine manufacturer / entrepreneur /businessmen
Alexander Onishko


  

Answers


6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
цеховик
underground entrepreneur (owner of black-market underground factories)


Explanation:
please see either here:

Mafiosi Dictionary - tsekhovik/tsekhoviki,
owner of black-market underground factories. tusovka, ...
da_wizeguy.tripod.com/omerta/id10.html

or here as well:

[PDF] Russian Organised Crime and the Baltic States: Assessing the ...
Dateiformat: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - HTML-Version
... were soon pushed out of an increasingly sophisticated economy by ‘second wave’
avtoriteti, many of whom had worked as tsekhoviki, (underground entrepreneurs ...
www.one-europe.ac.uk/pdf/w38rawlinson.pdf -

Sergey Strakhov
Local time: 21:37
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
PRO pts in category: 35

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alexander Demyanov: black market manufacturer?
6 mins
  -> Thanx, Alexander! Maybe manufacturer would be better. But "Black market" - certainly
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
цеховик
clandestine manufacturer / entrepreneur /businessmen


Explanation:
hope this helps :)

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Note added at 8 mins (2004-07-29 14:35:18 GMT)
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Ukrainian daily newspaper \"The Day\"... from Communist Party coffers: on the one hand, the Party was involved in shadow activities, but, on the other hand, there also were clandestine businessmen. ...

www.day.kiev.ua/DIGEST/2004/05/den-pln/dp1.htm


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Note added at 8 mins (2004-07-29 14:35:52 GMT)
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Synthesis of Dimenoxadol... For the clandestine manufacturer (CM), this substance would have the advantage that it\'s not a controlled substance. One could also ...

www.rhodium.ws/chemistry/dimenoxadol.html


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Note added at 9 mins (2004-07-29 14:36:20 GMT)
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... By selling these chemical variants (analogs), the clandestine manufacturer can profit from the distribution of dangerous compounds that can be abused, while ...

www.cnoa.org/N-05.pdf

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Note added at 9 mins (2004-07-29 14:36:44 GMT)
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... was a need for this type of training because Ecstacy is a complex drug with many chemical combinations that vary, depending on the clandestine manufacturer. ...

www.fhp.state.fl.us/html/ TroopK/TroopPhoto/drugschool.html


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Note added at 10 mins (2004-07-29 14:37:12 GMT)
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... the director to no longer jeopardize public health and welfare by evidenced proliferation or use in clandestine laboratories or other illicit manufacturer of a ...

www.tdcaa.com/DocumentRoot/ Proposed%20Meth%20Precursor%20Rules.doc

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Note added at 11 mins (2004-07-29 14:38:03 GMT)
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... (Political activist) John Samuels [sic] told me since that . . . there was this
group of clandestine businessmen in WA who he reckons runs the country. ...

www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/cont9.htm

Alexander Onishko
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
PRO pts in category: 128
Grading comment
OK, I like "clandestine."
Thanks!
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