US Gallons to Vedros (gal to vedro)
1 US gallon equals 0.3077718186 vedros (rounded).
How to convert US gallons to vedros
To convert US gallons to vedros, multiply the number of US gallons by 0.3077718186. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply vedros by 3.249160382 (rounded).
vedros = US gallons × 0.3077718186
Example: 10 US gallons = 3.077718186 vedros.
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 vedro varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.
About these units
US Gallon (gal)
Exactly 231 cubic inches or 3.785411784 liters (128 US fluid ounces). About 17% smaller than the imperial gallon.
The US gallon is a survivor of English wine trade. Around 1706, a statute in Queen Anne's reign fixed the wine gallon at exactly 231 cubic inches, settling confusion among the competing gallons for wine, ale and corn. British colonies in North America used that wine gallon, and in 1824 Britain replaced all its gallons with a new imperial one while the United States kept the old measure. It was adopted as the legal US standard in 1836 and is still defined as exactly 231 cubic inches, or 3.785411784 liters.
That makes the US gallon about 17 percent smaller than the imperial gallon, a difference that explains why American and British fuel-economy figures cannot be compared directly. Everyday uses are milk jugs, paint cans and gasoline pumps. One gallon divides evenly into four quarts, eight pints, sixteen cups and 128 fluid ounces. A gallon of water weighs a little over 8 pounds, an easy figure to remember when loading a car with water jugs.
1 US gallon = 3.785411784 liters (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Gallon; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume
Vedro (vedro)
The Russian 'bucket', about 12.3 L (ten shtofs). The standard Russian liquid measure until metrication.
Vedro means bucket in Russian, and the unit was the main liquid measure of the Russian Empire, used for wine, vodka and other drinks. Wholesale spirits were counted in vedros and in the bochka, a barrel of 40 vedros holding about 492 L.
Peter the Great did not scrap the old Russian units but redefined them against English ones. The liquid vedro was fixed at exactly 750 cubic inches, which gives 12.29941 L, or about 2.7 imperial gallons. A separate dry vedro of 800 cubic inches, about 13.12 L, was used for grain, so the word has two values depending on the goods.
Smaller liquid units were fractions of it: a bottle of vodka was one twentieth, a kruzhka one tenth, a charka one hundredth, and the standard shtof one tenth in the 19th century. Metric units became optional in Russia in 1900, compulsory in the Russian SFSR in 1918, and the Soviet Union dropped the old measures officially in 1925.
1 vedro = 12.29941 liters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Vedro; Wikipedia: Obsolete Russian units of measurement
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