Verst
| Verst | |
|---|---|
Obsolete Russian units of measurement | |
| Unit of | Length |
| Conversions | |
| 1 in ... | ... is equal to ... |
| Sazhen | 1±500 Sazhen |
| SI base units | 1.0668 km |
A verst (
sazhen
. This makes a verst equal to 1.0668 kilometres (3,500 feet).
Plurals and variants
In the
genitive plural
verst – 10 verst, 25 verst, etc. – whence the English form.
A mezhevaya versta (Russian: межевая верста, literally 'border verst') is twice as long as a verst.
"The verst of the 17th century was 700
sazhens or 1.49 km as against the 500 sazhens or 1.067 km it became at the time of Peter the Great."[1]
Finnish virsta
In Finland, a virsta was 1,068.84 m according to the Swedish standard, defined in 1827 as 1⁄10 of a peninkulma, the Finnish language name for the pre-metric Swedish mil, used in Finland since the early 17th century (see Obsolete Finnish units of measurement), or 600 syli (Swedish fathoms, 1.781 m). Metrication replaced virsta with the kilometre in the 1880s.[2]
References
External links
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