arshin

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[Russian. аршин Plural, arshiny.] In Russia, 16th – 20th centuries, a unit of length. Also romanized as archin, archine, archinne, arschine and arsheen. In the early 18th century, the Tsar Peter the Great issued a ukase redefining the traditional Russian units of length in terms of the English foot. The archin was made equal to 28 English inches (= 71.12 centimeters) or 16 vershki. This legal definition was repeated in later years, for example, in a ukase issued on 11 October 1835.

Later, when the English connection was discarded and prototypes made, the arshin was defined as the distance at 17°C between two lines on the platinum-iridium prototype marked "H 1894", approximately 0.711200 meter.

CIPM.
Procès-verbaux (1897).

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In Bulgaria, 19th century, a unit of length, 75.8 centimeters as used by masons, and 68.0 cm as used by tailors.

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[Turkish] In Turkey, by a law of 1881 (the new arshin) a unit of length = 1 meter. See arşini.