apparatchik russian

• аппара́тчик

  apparatchik, party official, bureaucrat

  operator (of industrial equipment), machine operator, plant operator

• аппара́тчица

  machine operator, plant operator, operator of an industrial apparatus

  female apparatchik, party functionary, bureaucrat

• номенклату́рщик

  nomenklatura member, party apparatchik

Examples

• Старые номенклатурщики до сих пор занимают важные посты.

  The old party apparatchiks still hold important positions.