{{Short description|Archaic Russian land measurement}}
A '''desiatina''', also known as '''desyatina''', '''desiatin''' or '''desyatin''' ({{langx|ru|десятина}}), is a historical measure of area used in Russian Tsardom and Russian Empire for land measurement. A desiatina is equal to 2,400 square sazhens and is approximately equivalent to 2.702 English acres, 10,925 square metres, or 1.09 hectare.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Emilciuc |first1=Andrei |title=Organization and Functioning of the Salt Extracting Industry in Bessarabia (1812-1850) |journal=Mirrors of Salt: Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt |date=2023 |pages=253–266 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.5329287.27 |publisher=Archaeopress |doi=10.2307/jj.5329287.27 |access-date=17 June 2025|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Naft |first1=Stephen |title=International Conversion Tables: Weights, Measures, Gauges, Currencies, Conversion Equivalents and Factors, Technical Units, Alphabets [and] Other Useful Information |date=1961 |publisher=Duell, Sloan and Pearce |page=140 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1y3AAAAIAAJ |access-date=17 June 2025}}</ref>
==See also== *Historical Russian units of measurement
==References== {{Reflist}}
Category:Units of area Category:Obsolete units of measurement
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