In Russia, 18ᵗʰ – 20ᵗʰ centuries, a unit of length, = 0.1 inch (2.54 mm). Also romanized as liniia.
Lev Vladimirovich Cherepnin.
Russkaia metrologiia.
Series title: Uchebnye posobiia po vspomogatelnym istoricheskim distsiplinam #4.
Moscow: GAU NKVD SSSR, 1944.
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