Verst
Template:Short description Template:Infobox unit
A verst (Template:Langx) is an obsolete Russian unit of length defined as 500 sazhen. This makes a verst equal to Template:Convert.
Plurals and variantsEdit
In the English language, verst is singular with the normal plural versts. In Russian, the nominative singular is {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, but the form usually used with numbers is the genitive plural {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}—10 verst, 25 verst, etc.—whence the English form.
A {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Template:Langx, 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.<ref>Raymond H. Fisher, The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev, Hakluyt Society, 1981, p. 176, citing Dal's Tolkovyy Slovar.</ref>
Finnish virstaEdit
In Finland, a {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} was 1,068.84 m according to the Swedish standard, defined in 1827 as Template:Fract of a {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, 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 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Swedish fathoms, 1.781 m). Metrication replaced {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} with the kilometre in the 1880s.<ref>Konu, Mia. Palvelukseen halutaan yksi raitis imettäjä - notiiseja ja reklaameja 1800-luvun sanomalehdistä. Nemo, Helsinki 2009.</ref>