English Words of Russian Origin

The following English words have been acquired either directly from Russian or else indirectly by passing from Russian into other languages and then into English. Based on the definition, guess the word.

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Definition	Word
Large kind of sturgeon	Beluga
Left-wing majority group of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party	Bolshevik
Russian astronaut	Cosmonaut
Country house or cottage in Russia	Dacha
Collective farm in the Soviet Union	Kolkhoz
Compromising information collected for use in blackmailing, discrediting, or manipulating someone, typically for political purposes	Kompromat
Citadel within a Russian town	Kremlin
Peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labour	Kulak

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