The Nivkh were forced into mass agricultural and industrial labour collectives called "kolkhoz". With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Kolkhoz collectives were abandoned. As a collective farm, a "kolkhoz" was legally organized as a production cooperative. His troops carried out surprise raids on railway junctions, kolkhoz and the Soviet authorities. Starting in 1993, privatized kolkhoz and sovkhoz units became corporate farms. His father, Sharif, was a collective farm (kolkhoz) manager while his mother was a housewife. It is usually contrasted with kolkhoz, which is a collective-owned farm. In the kolkhoz, farmers are busy reaping cotton. After the war he worked as chairman of the kolkhoz in Buryatia. By no means was joining the collective farm (also known as the kolkhoz) voluntary. Kvachantiradze left the army in 1945 and became a head of a Kolkhoz. Every town, kolkhoz and sovkhoz had a central Palace or House of Culture. He was raised by a stepfather, Pavel Antonovich Litvinenko, the head of kolkhoz.