A verst (; ) is an obsolete Russian unit of length, defined as 500 sazhen. This makes a verst equal to .

Plurals and variants

In the

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, ''verst'' is singular with the normal plural ''versts''. In Russian, the

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is , but the form usually used with numbers is the

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—10 verst, 25 verst, etc.—whence the English form. A (, literally "border verst") is twice as long as a verst.

The verst of the 17th century was 700 sazhens or 1.49 km as against the 500 sazhens or 1.067 km it became at the time of
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.

Finnish ''virsta''

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, a was 1,068.84 m according to the Swedish standard, defined in 1827 as of a , the Finnish language name for the pre-metric Swedish '' mil'', used in Finland since the early 17th century (see Obsolete Finnish units of measurement), or 600 (Swedish fathoms, 1.781 m). Metrication replaced with the

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in the 1880s.

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