A Russian unit of land area equal to about 2.7 acres or roughly 1.09 hectares, historically used for measuring agricultural land.
From Russian 'desyatina,' related to the number ten (Russian 'desyat'), as it was originally one-tenth of a larger land measure. The term reflects Russian imperial measurement systems.
The deciatine was crucial to understanding Russian agricultural wealth and land distribution—when Tolstoy wrote about Russian estates in novels, the land values were calculated in deciatines!
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