Kolhitsiin

Kolhitsiin is a Mongolian term that denotes the possessive or genitive form related to kolkhoz, the Soviet-era system of collective farming. In Mongolian usage, kolhitsiin signals that something belongs to or is associated with a kolkhoz.

Etymology and usage guides indicate that kolkhoz is written kolhoz in Mongolian, and the genitive suffix -iin attaches to indicate possession. As a result, kolhitsiin appears in archival and historical writing to describe aspects of kolkhoz farms, land parcels, or governance linked to a particular kolkhoz.

Historical context shows that kolkoziin-like structures were part of Mongolia’s socialist agricultural policy, established in rural areas to pool land, capital, and labor under centralized planning. These units were administered within the framework of the Mongolian People’s Republic and were overseen by state bodies and kolhoz committees, with production targets and shared surplus.

In the transition to a market economy, many kolhoziin were dissolved, privatized, or reorganized during the reforms of the 1990s. The legacies of these changes persist in land tenure arrangements, rural governance, and regional agricultural statistics. The term kolhitsiin is therefore most often encountered in historical, archival, or scholarly discussions about Mongolia’s socialist-era agriculture.

See also: Kolkhoz, Mongolian People’s Republic, agriculture in Mongolia, decollectivization.