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A native system of weights and measures was used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution , but became obsolete in 1924 when it was replaced in the Soviet Union by a Metric System .


RUSSIAN SYSTEM


Length

The basic unit is the Russian Cubit , called ''arshin'', measuring exactly twenty-eight English Inch es. Thus, 80 vershok = 20 pyad = 5 arshin = 140 English Inch es = 8 Roman Cubits .

A ''pyad’'', or ''chetvert’'' (, 'quarter') is a hand Span , the distance between ends of the spread Thumb and Index Finger .

Alternate units:

  • Swung sazhen () = 1.76 m

  • Skewed, or oblique sazhen () = 2.48 m

  • Double versta or border versta, (), used to measure land plots and distances between settlements



Area

  • Desyatina ()

  • --- State desyatina () = 10,9254 m&2 (117,600 ft&2)

  • -- 1 State desyatina equals 2,400 square sazhen

  • Proprietor () = 14,5672 m&2 (156,800 ft&2)

  • --- 1 proprietor equals 3,200 square sazhen

  • --- 3 proprietors are 4 state desyatinas



Weight

  • Pound () is 409.5124 g

  • Pood () is 40 funt, i.e. 16.3805 Kilogram s.


The pood was used in Russia , Belarus and Ukraine . Pood was first mentioned in a number of documents of the Twelfth Century . It may still be encountered in documents dealing with Agricultural production (especially with reference to Cereal s).


Volume


Dry measures

  • Garnets () = 3.28 litres

  • Chetverik () = 26.24 litres

  • --- 1 chetverik is 8 garnetses

  • Osmina () = 104.95 litres

  • --- 1 osmina is 4 chetveriks

  • Chetvert (, 'quarter') = 209.91 litres

  • --- 1 chetvert is 2 osminas



Liquid measures

  • Shkalik (, or косу́шка, ''kosushka'', a small Vodka glass) = 60 mL

  • Charka (, ' Wine glass') = 123 mL

  • --- 1 charka is 2 shkaliks

  • Butylka (, 'vodka bottle') = 624 mL

  • --- 1 butylka is 1/20 of vedro or 5 charkas

  • Shtof (, from the Prussia n '' Stof '') = 1.23 litres

  • --- 1 shtof is 2 butylkas or 10 charkas or 1/10 vedro

  • Chetvert (, 'quarter') = 3.08 litres

  • --- 1 chetvert is 25 charkas or 1/4 vedro

  • Vedro (, 'bucket') = 12.3 Litre s. It is not equal to the Imperial Bucket .

  • --- 1 vedro is 100 charkas

  • Bochka (, 'barrel') = 491.96 litres

  • --- 1 bochka is 40 vedros. It is not equal to the Imperial Barrel .


Note: The liquid measures were such because of Vodka Monopoly in Imperial Russia .


TATAR SYSTEM

The Tatar System is very similar to the Russian one, but some names are different.


TRIVIA

The vershok is — coincidentally — equivalent to the modern day " Rack Unit " used in describing the height of standardized Rack-mounted Devices such as those used in the Broadcasting , Computing , Entertainment and Telecommunications industries.


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