A verst (Russian: верста, versta) is an obsolete Russian unit of length defined as 500 sazhen. This makes a verst equal to 1.0668 kilometres (3,500 feet)...

Tasy Verst (Armenian: Տասը Վերստ), Tsaghkadzor (Armenian: Ծաղկաձոր; Azerbaijani: Saxkadzor) or Onverst is a village located in the Shusha District of...

Слышно за версту: (It) can be heard a verst away – about something very loud Бешеной собаке семь вёрст не крюк: 7 versts is not a detour for a mad dog – about...

Saint Peterburg–Sestroretsk railway was constructed as Shunting loop 2 verst. This shunting loop was opened on July 12, 1894, concurrent with the opening...

mile (миля or русская миля, russkaya milya) was 7.468 km, divided into 7 versts. The Croatian mile (hrvatska milja), first devised by the Jesuit Stjepan...

because of the linkage between the two units. Similar units: 1,066.8 metres – verst, see also Obsolete Russian units of measurement 3,200 metres – kosh, used...

kuppelen vår lekker? Nov 2018 Le Monde diplomatique 2019-11-11 Begge er verst Mar 2019 Le Monde diplomatique 2019-11-11 La hundre WikiLeaks blomstre Apr...

mesures usuelles system, such that 1 m was exactly 1⁄2 toise. The Russian verst was 1.0668 km. The Swedish mil was 10.688 km, but was changed to 10 km when...

li (China) pace (the "double pace" of about 5 feet used in Ancient Rome) verst (Russia) In everyday conversation, and in informal literature, it is common...

cross-country trials the Vezdekhod was reported to be capable of a speed of 40 Verst per hour (42.6 km/h (26.5 mph)) with simulated armor weight but proved impossible...

my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles (versts) around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that...

without Kiev Baltic governorates closed for arriving Jews Rural areas for 50 versts (53 km) from the western border were closed for new settlement of the Jews...

Gissar (Termez) in the south and Petro-Aleksandrovsky (Khiva)... At 16 verst from Chardjuy lies the rather large Bukharan city of Chardjuy (native Chardjuy)...

defend Akmola, Semipalatinsk and Atyrau regions. The republic included a 10-verst long strip along the Urals and Irtysh Rivers, where the Cossacks settled...

Kamenskaya 24,659.3 square versts (28,063.8 km2; 10,835.5 sq mi) 455,819 1st Don 1-й Донской Konstantinovskaya 15,415.9 square versts (17,544.3 km2; 6,773.9 sq mi)...

fortress. Most give the distance upriver from Tobolsk as 17 or 18 km, or versts, or ten to eleven miles, but others give 23 km. Sources of the early 19th...

(present-day Ganja). The area of the governorate stretched 38,922.43 square versts (44,296.15 square kilometres; 17,102.84 square miles) and was composed of...

attempted flank attack on Allied positions along the Obozerskaya road at Verst 16. April 8, 1919 Belligerents  United Kingdom  United States Northern Russia...

my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles (versts) around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that...

þar vaða þunga strauma menn meinsvara ok morðvargar. En í Hvergelmi er verst: Þar kvelr Níðhöggr nái framgengna. Gylfaginning 52, EB's edition On Nástrand...

with yesterday's telegram. Do it in such a fashion, that for hundreds of verst around the people see, tremble, know, shout: "the bloodsucking kulaks are...

Retrieved September 23, 2012. Rebecca Adams (August 20, 2012). "Maddy Verst's Padded Bra On 'Toddlers & Tiaras' Might Cause Her Mother To Lose Custody...

bus station called Chernihiv Ovruch railway. Narrow gauge railway of 76 versts was laid from the Kruty station of the Moscow Kyiv-Voronezh railway towards...

the identification card (Russian: Свидетельство) was valid only within 30 Verst (approximately thirty kilometers) of the place of registration - thus internal...

observed an unusual natural occurrence. In the north Karelinski village [200 verst (213 km (132 mi)) north of Kirensk] the peasants saw to the northwest, rather...

90 square versts (5,596.88 km2; 2,160.97 sq mi) Kagizman okrug (Кагызманскій округъ) Kagyzman (Kağızman) 59,230 83,208 3,843.17 square versts (4,373.77 km2;...

its total border of 1,260 versts (1,344 km), the sea border is 320 versts (341 km). The border with Prussia is only 6 versts (6.4 km) long and lacks natural...

the word "sin" is spelt zenne, "father" becomes vader, "first" becomes verst or averst. The spelling is unusually consistent for the time, which implies...

square versts (3,803.05 km2; 1,468.37 sq mi) Vladikavkazsky okrug (Владикавказскій округъ) Vladikavkaz 134,947 207,742 5,023.10 square versts (5,716.60 km2;...

the east of the Taymyr Peninsula) is 2800 verst, the greatest width from west to east is up to 1300 verst. In the north, the Yeniseysk Governorate was...