Sazhen


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Sazhen

A Russian unit of length equivalent to seven feet. It was rendered obsolete when the Soviet Union began to use the metric system in 1924.
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In 1754 the land survey instructions ruled that the highway should be sixty sazhens (128 m) wide.
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