Obsolete Russian weights & measures

Russian system

Weight

• Funt () is 409.5124 g
• Pood () is 40 funt, i.e. 16.38 kilograms.
  

  Length

• Verst, Versta () is 3,500 feet (1.0668 km), about two-thirds of a mile
• * 1 versta = 500 sazhen
• * also the "border versta" () equal to 1000 sazhen was in use, to measure land plots and distances between settlemets.
• Sazhen () is 7 feet or 2.1336 m.
• * 1 sazhen is 3 arshin
• * Swung sazhen () is 1.76 m
• * Skew (oblique) sazhen () is 2.48 m
• Arshin () is 0.77 yard or 71.12 cm.
• Chetvert (, quarter) the same as "pyad"
• Pyad () is about 7 inches or 17.78 cm. Historically it corresponded to the distance between ends of the spreaded thumb and index finger. See also span
• *1 pyad is 4 vershok
• Vershok () is 1.75 inch or 4.45 cm.
• * 1 arshin is 16 vershok
• Desyatina ()
• * State desyatina () is 2.7 acres or 1.09 hectares
• ** equals to 2400 square sazhen
• * Proprietor () (18th, beginning of 19th century) is 3.6 acres or 1.45 hectares
• ** Equals to 3200 sqare sazhen
  

  Volume

  Dry measures

• Chetvert (, quarter) is 209.91 litres
• 1 chetvert is 2 osminas
• Osmina () is 104.95 litres
• * 1 osmina is 4
• Chetverik () is 26.24 litres
• * 1 chetverik is 8 garnetses
• Garnets () is 3.28 litres
  

  Liquid measures

• Bochka (, barrel) is 491.96 litres
• * 1 bochka is 40 vedros. It is not equal to barrel.
• Vedro (bucket) () is 12.3 litres. It is not equal to the Imperial bucket.
• Chetvert (, quarter) is 3.08 litres
• * 1 chetvert is 1/4 of vedro
• Shtof (, from German "Stof") is 1.23 litres
• 1 shtof is 2 vodka bottles is 10 "charkas"
• Butylka (, vodka bottle) is 0.624 litres
• * 1 butylka is 1/20 of vedro or 5 charkas
• Charka (, "wine glass") is 0.123 litres
• 1 charka is 2 shkaliks
• Shkalik (, "косу́шка", a small vodka glass) is 0.06 litres

Tatar system

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

External links

• Traditional Russian measures
• Conversion between various units of all kinds