Poods to Grams (pood to g)

1 pood equals 16,380.6872 grams exactly.

1 pood = 16,380.6872 grams

How to convert poods to grams

To convert poods to grams, multiply the number of poods by 16,380.6872. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply grams by 0.00006104749989 (rounded).

grams = poods × 16,380.6872

Example: 10 poods = 163,806.872 grams.

About these units

Pood (pood)

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

40 funts, about 16.38 kg. Used for grain, metals and trade goods in Russia into the 20th century; kettlebells are still sold in poods.

Pood is a Russian borrowing from the Latin pondus, meaning weight, and it is one of the oldest named Russian units: a Novgorod charter of 1134 to 1135 already mentions it. For centuries merchants quoted grain, metals, hemp and tallow by the pood, and grain output was still reported in poods on a Soviet stamp in 1959.

From 1899 it was set at about 16.38 kg, and the figure used here is 16.3807 kg, or 40 funts and about 36.1 pounds. Formal abolition came in the 1920s, though the word stayed in common use for decades afterwards, and the idiom sto pudov, a hundred poods, now means absolute certainty.

The best-known survivor is the kettlebell. Traditional Russian kettlebells are made in multiples and fractions of 16 kg, one pood, so a 24 kg bell is called a pood and a half.

1 pood = 16.3806872 kilograms (exactly).

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

Gram (g)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One thousandth of a kilogram. The standard unit for food quantities and small objects.

A gram was once defined as a small drop of the natural world. The French National Convention of 1795 set it as the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to a cube one hundredth of a metre on each side, a cubic centimetre. The reference temperature was first the melting point of ice and was later changed to the temperature of maximum density of water, about 4 degrees Celsius. The word came into French as gramme, from Late Latin gramma, itself from the Greek for a letter or small mark; in Late Antiquity it meant about one twenty-fourth of an ounce.

The gram was the base unit of mass in the centimetre-gram-second system, but in 1960 the SI took the kilogram as its base unit, which made the gram one thousandth of it. That is why it appears in so many everyday places: it is the standard for non-liquid ingredients in cooking and shopping, and nutrition labels commonly list contents per 100 g. For a sense of scale, a small paper clip or a pen cap weighs about a gram, and a Japanese 1-yen coin is close to exactly that, while a US penny is around 2.5 g.

1 gram = 0.001 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Gram; Wikipedia: Kilogram

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