Definition of Versts. Meaning of Versts. Synonyms of Versts

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Definition of Versts

Verst
Verst Verst, n. [Russ. versta: cf. F. verste.] A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet. [Written also werst.]

Meaning of Versts from wikipedia

- kilometres (3,500 feet). In the English language, verst is singular with the normal plural versts. In Russian, the nominative singular is versta, but...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)...
- (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...
- governorate from north to south is up to 550 versts (590 km), and the greatest width from west to east was 500 versts (530 km). On the territory of the former...
- fairly rectangular in shape, with a maximum length of 246 versts (262 km) and a width of 198 versts (211 km). Its borders were the Governorate of Estonia...
- booming metropolis and Caspian Sea port of Baku. Area (1897): 34,400 sq. versts, po****tion (1897): 789,659. The Baku Governorate bordered Persia to the...
- (295 versts) Operation began in September 1871; Naujoji Vilnia–Minsk (173 versts) began on 14 (26 New Style) January 1873; Minsk–Bobruisk (140 versts) began...
- south. The land border was 297 versts (317 km; 197 mi) in the west, 469 versts (500 km; 311 mi) in the north, 75 versts (80 km; 50 mi) in the east with...