: a Russian country cottage used especially in the summer
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Assad may melt away into exile in a lavish row of Moscow dachas, and his hollow autocracy may crumble fast.
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Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
Undiscussed is how, after the Nazi invasion began in 1941, Stalin hid out in his dacha for 10 days before addressing the public, or how the execution of virtually all senior military commanders in the Great Purge contributed to the military disasters that soon followed.
—Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
Yevgeny, 24, quit his job as a mechanic and is hiding at a relative’s dacha far from Moscow.
—Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
Then, without warning, a delegation of Kremlin hard-liners from the military and the K.G.B. arrived at the door of his dacha, having cut off his phones.
—Marilyn Berger, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
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Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
Undiscussed is how, after the Nazi invasion began in 1941, Stalin hid out in his dacha for 10 days before addressing the public, or how the execution of virtually all senior military commanders in the Great Purge contributed to the military disasters that soon followed.
—Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
Yevgeny, 24, quit his job as a mechanic and is hiding at a relative’s dacha far from Moscow.
—Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
Then, without warning, a delegation of Kremlin hard-liners from the military and the K.G.B. arrived at the door of his dacha, having cut off his phones.
—Marilyn Berger, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
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“Dacha.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dacha. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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