-
modern colloquial Russian, the
expression sto
pudov (сто пудов) – 'a
hundred poods,' an
intentional play on the
foreign "hundred percent" –
imparts the ponderative...
- вершка: Two
vershok above the pot – a very
young child Сто пудов: a
hundred poods – a very
large amount. In
modern colloquial Russian it is used in a generic...
-
adopted to
collect 19.5
million poods. The
actual state of
collection was
disastrous however, and by 31 July only 3
million poods (compared to 21
million in...
-
Yalyshev visited China. The
Mongolian Khan
donated to Tsar
Michael I four
poods (65–70 kg) of tea in 1638.
According to
Jeremiah Curtin, it was possibly...
- The
principle of
orthogonal design (abbreviated
POOD) was
developed by
database researchers David McGoveran and
Christopher J. Date in the
early 1990s...
-
Grain to
increase from 8.5
milliard poods (139
million tonnes) in 1958 to 10–11
milliard poods (~172
million tonnes) by 1965...
- at the time
however was in
poods, thus the
licornes in this list were
actually quarter-
pood, half-
pood, 1-
pood, and 2-
pood. The 8-pounder
required two...
- pre-revolutionary
recipes specified as much as half
pound of
saltpetre per a
pood of meat.
After the Revolution, the sausage-making was
largely concentrated...
- for the
Odessa and
Dnepropetrovsk regions 400
thousand poods (6,600 tonnes, 200
thousand poods or 3,300
tonnes for each)
appeared as
early as 7 February...
-
million poods (1.77
million metric tons) of
grain and
fodder in 1918–19, 212.5
million poods (3.48
million metric tons) in 1919–20, and 367
million poods (6...
