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Traditional East Slavic bread shaped like a padlock or various kinds of wheels. Other Slavic nations have similar but not identical types of pastry, e.g. Czech or Slovak koláč/koláč, Polish kołacz, Bulgarian колач(kolač), Serbo-Croatian колач/kolač, etc.
1892, Vladimir Korolenko, anonymous translator, “Bad Company”, in Antony Lambton, compiler, Bad Company and Other Stories, London; Melbourne, Vic.; New York, N.Y.: Quartet Books, published 1986, →ISBN, chapter II (Queer People), page 20:
[H]e used to roam about the town with his hands in his pockets, doing nothing, and casting looks at the stalls of the old women who sold kalachs which made them tremble.
Her ladyship was reduced to the pitiable choice of yesterday’s croissants or one of the nine different kinds of rolls, milk breads, sweet breads, scones, pancakes, vatrushki, kalachi, ponchiki, rogaliki and bulochki whose delicious, new-baked smell was wafting all over the house.
