Examples of using Versts in English and their translations into Russian
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Sketches"220 versts.
There are dragoons in 30 versts and a shoving raincloud of polacks.
Khmelnitsky's cavalry in 20 versts.
We are, in fact 978 long versts north-north-east of Moscow.
Scale: in one English inch 20 versts.
The roadway passed eight versts distant from the Sergiev monastery.
I wish we had a rest'fore marching another 5 versts without a bite.
In 15 versts of persecution, Russian troops scattered enemy forces.
Come on doctor, only 40 versts to go.
Ten versts before reaching Vladimir, the horse, bearing the icon bound for Rostov, suddenly stopped.
Bolsheviks, no more than 15 versts from here.
To prevent the erosion of the mountain,the Tobol River was moved to the south for two versts.
They were given the wrong directions and walked more than five versts before they realized their mistake.
I mean, after Gracevka there's not another station for hundreds of versts.
The line, 3.5 versts long(3.7 kilometers or 2.32 miles), passed from Skoba(Unity Square) to the bridge, connecting both funiculars.
By late 1895, the power grid had been around 160 versts(90 miles) long.
Do it in such a way that for hundreds of versts around the people will see, tremble, know, shout: they are strangling and will strangle to death the bloodsucker kulaks.
The length of the railway in its final form from Baikal station to Mysovaya was 244 versts 260 km.
Of these, the Kashin-Novka line was to be the longest- about 239 versts, the Kalyazin-Savelovo branch 50 versts(53 km) and the Kalyazin-Uglich branch about 43 versts 46 km.
Its residents were forbidden to leave the settlement without a permission of superiors further than to a distance of 30 versts 32 km.
Vitebsk, with a testimony to the degree of liberality of up to 5 versts of land and settlements on which is signified by a red circle in the 3-verst proportion of a comfortable and uncomfortable land Case.
He was tonsured in the monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos, five versts from Smolensk, at Selischa.
Desiring solitude, he left the city monasterywith the abbot's blessing, and he found a suitable place between two lakes, eighteen versts from Kashin.
Having buried his parents, Bartholomew and his brother Stephen withdrew into the forest(12 versts from Radonezh) to live in the wilderness.
The map of the Vilna province, compiled by the Vilnius provincial land surveyor[Chancellor], on page 16,scale: in 1 English inch 25 versts, 55 cm x 35 cm.
In 1721, when Builovo Church was founded,its clergymen were granted a haying Mirovo Wasteland seven versts(7.5 km or 4.5 miles) away from the Church.
Having stayed here for a while, a miraculous appearance God knows where disappeared, and a few days later it emerged in the village of Vymochenitsy,located 100 versts from Tikhvin.
Peter got only an initial(home)education, since the nearest school was as far as 20 versts from the village.
Of course, women going into the cave wereout of the question, they had to bypass the rock two versts(2.13 km) away.
The buildings were initially wooden because the law at the time did not allow stone buildings to be built within 1½ versts from the Narva Castle.