Funt (Russian Pound) (funt)

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

About 409.52 g (a little under 0.9 lb). The standard Russian pound until metrication.

1 funt (Russian pound) = 0.40951718 kilograms (exactly).

About the funt (Russian pound)

Funt is the Russian cousin of the English pound, and its name shares the same Latin root as pound, German Pfund and Dutch pond. Before the metric system it was the basic unit from which every other Russian weight was built, so that zolotniks, lots and poods were all counted as parts or multiples of it.

The figure used here is 409.51718 g, about 14.445 ounces or 0.903 of an avoirdupois pound. Russian sources have long given slightly different decimals for the funt, because the standard was a physical weight and later conversions to metric were refined, so the last few digits vary between references.

One funt contains 96 zolotniks, and 40 funts make a pood. An apothecaries' funt was lighter, at 84 zolotniks. Imperial Russia began using the metric system in 1899 and made it compulsory in 1918, and the funt gradually disappeared from shops.

Sources: Wikipedia: Funt (mass); Wikipedia: Obsolete Russian units of measurement

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