A dessiatin or desyatina (russian: десятина) is an archaic, rudimentary land measurement used in

tsarist Tsarist autocracy (russian: царское самодержавие, transcr. ''tsarskoye samoderzhaviye''), also called Tsarism, was a form of autocracy (later absolute monarchy) specific to the Grand Duchy of Moscow and its successor states ...

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. A dessiatin is equal to 2,400 square

sazhen A native system of weights and measures was used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution of 1917, Russian Revolution, but it was abandoned after 21 July 1925, when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system, per the order of the Counci ...

s and is approximately equivalent to 2.702 English

acres The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, of a square mile, 4,840 square ya ...

or 10,926.512

square metres The square metre ( international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or square meter (American spelling) is the unit of area in the International System of Units (SI) with symbol m2. It is the area of a square w ...

(1.09

hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is a ...

). * Treasury/official desyatina , ) = 10,925.4 m² = 117,600 sq ft = 2.7 acres = 2,400 square sazhen * Proprietor's (, ) = 14,567.2 m² = 156,800 sq ft = 3,200 square sazhen Hence 3 proprietor's desyatinas = 4 official desyatinas.

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