Meaning of 'Konkursnoe proizvodstvo'

Andy Hicks ah69 at columbia.edu
Wed Jan 27 14:12:45 UTC 1999


My own meager experience with contemporary business Russian indicates
that "konkursnyi" refers to bankruptcies and the like, while
"konkurentnyi" deals with competitions.

Yoshimasa Tsuji wrote:
>
>  A layman like myself will guess that it will be a special production
> with a purpose of sending the product to a Konkurs (competition,
> as in <Chajkovskij competition>). There were Konkurs'es of all sorts
> within their own industries in Soviet era (competitions for
> product quality, they were).
>  Another meaning (a meeting of creditors) surely is pre-revolutionary.
>
> Cheers,
> Tsuji



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