Kilograms to Zolotniks (kg to zol)

1 kilogram equals 234.4223996 zolotniks (rounded).

1 kilogram = 234.4223996 zolotniks

How to convert kilograms to zolotniks

To convert kilograms to zolotniks, multiply the number of kilograms by 234.4223996. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply zolotniks by 0.004265803958 (rounded).

zolotniks = kilograms × 234.4223996

Example: 10 kilograms = 2,344.223996 zolotniks.

About these units

Kilogram (kg)

Metric (SI)Current unit

The SI base unit of mass. Since 2019 it is defined by fixing the value of the Planck constant, replacing the old platinum-iridium cylinder in Paris.

Oddly for a base unit, the kilogram began life as a derived one. In 1793 revolutionary France defined the grave as the mass of one litre of water, and a decree of 1795 then replaced it with the kilogramme, a name built from the Greek khilioi (a thousand) and gramma, a Late Latin word for a small weight. In 1799 a platinum cylinder, the Kilogramme des Archives, became the physical standard, matching a cubic decimetre of water at its densest, around 4 degrees Celsius. In 1889 the metric community adopted a platinum-iridium cylinder made in 1879, the International Prototype of the Kilogram, nicknamed Le Grand K.

The kilogram is still the only SI base unit with a prefix in its name. Because SI forbids stacked prefixes, a millionth of a kilogram is a milligram rather than a microkilogram, so every mass prefix is attached to the gram. Calibrating every national standard against one object in a vault near Paris meant that all of them drifted relative to it, so in November 2018 member states voted to tie the kilogram to a fixed value of the Planck constant. The change took effect on 20 May 2019. Day to day nothing shifted, but the definition no longer depends on a single piece of metal.

The kilogram is the reference unit for weight & mass on this site.

Sources: NIST: Kilogram introduction (SI redefinition); Wikipedia: Kilogram

Zolotnik (zol)

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

One 96th of a funt, about 4.266 g. A Russian unit used for gold and silver.

Zolotnik means the golden one. The name goes back to a coin that circulated in Kievan Rus until the 11th century and weighed about the same as the Byzantine solidus. As a unit it was in use from roughly the 10th century to the 20th, and it became the standard for working silver, much as the troy ounce serves precious metals elsewhere.

In the later Russian system it was one 96th of a funt, which gives about 4.2658 g, or roughly 65.8 grains. The same system split the zolotnik into 96 dolya, and three zolotniks made a lot, so the funt, lot, zolotnik and dolya formed a neat ladder of fine divisions.

Apothecaries used a lighter pound of 84 zolotniks, so the unit sometimes appears under different totals in pharmacy texts. It was retired with the other old Russian weights after 1918.

1 zolotnik = 0.004265803958 kilograms (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Zolotnik; Wikipedia: Obsolete Russian units of measurement

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