Liters to Shtofs (L to shtof)

1 liter equals 0.8130471299 shtofs (rounded).

1 liter = 0.8130471299 shtofs

How to convert liters to shtofs

To convert liters to shtofs, multiply the number of liters by 0.8130471299. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply shtofs by 1.229941.

shtofs = liters × 0.8130471299

Example: 10 liters = 8.130471299 shtofs.

Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.

Approximate value. Standards for the shtof varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.

About these units

Liter (L)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One cubic decimeter (1,000 cm³). The everyday metric unit of volume for drinks, fuel and cooking.

The liter was born in revolutionary France. In 1795 it was introduced as a republican unit and defined as one cubic decimeter, while the gram was tied to a cubic centimeter of water. The name comes from the older French litron, itself descended from a Byzantine Greek unit of weight, not volume. A small revision of the decimeter in 1798 left the first liter about 1.000974 of today's cubic decimeter, and in 1879 the international metric authorities adopted the liter with the symbol l.

The liter then took a strange detour. In 1901 it was redefined as the space taken up by one kilogram of pure water at its densest, which made it about 1.000028 cubic decimeters, and that muddled definition lasted until 1964, when it was restored to exactly one cubic decimeter. A capital L was added as an alternative symbol in 1979 because a lowercase l is easy to mistake for the digit 1, and NIST says L is the symbol to use in the United States. A liter of water is close to a kilogram, which is why a one-liter bottle feels like a kilo in the hand.

The liter is the reference unit for volume on this site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST Guide to the SI, Chapter 5: units outside the SI

Shtof (shtof)

Russian (Imperial)Historical unit (no longer in standard use)Approximate value

One tenth of a vedro, about 1.23 L. A traditional Russian bottle size for spirits.

Shtof comes from the German word Stof, which Russian used for a large goblet or flagon. The name was then given both to a squat, four-sided green glass bottle with a short neck and to the liquid measure that bottle held. Taverns known as shtof shops sold vodka and wine in sealed bottles of this size until the metric system arrived.

The size depended on the period. The standard shtof of the 19th century was one tenth of a vedro, or about 1.23 L, equal to ten charkas. An older shtof from before the 19th century held about 1.54 L, and the eight-sided shtof was one eighth of a vedro, about 1.537 L. The figure used here is the standard one tenth of a vedro, which equals 75 cubic inches.

English-language sources say little about the shtof. The English Wikipedia table of Russian measures lists the word as flagon but gives no volume, so the figures above rest mainly on the Russian Wikipedia article. In modern terms a standard shtof is a little more than a litre and a quarter, close to a large wine bottle.

1 shtof = 1.229941 liters (approximately).

Sources: Russian Wikipedia: Штоф (единица объёма); Wikipedia: Obsolete Russian units of measurement

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