desiatina

desiatina (plural desiatinas or desiatiny)

1. Alternative spelling of dessiatina.
   • 1982, A[leksandr] I[l’ich] Klibanov, translated by Ethel Dunn, “Economic Development and Social Contradictions in Molokan Settlements”, in Stephen P[orter] Dunn, editor, History of Religious Sectarianism in Russia (1860s–1917), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Pergamon Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Trends of Pre-Reform Sectarianism and Their Evolution), chapter 4 (The Molokan Sect), page 186:

     The area of the isolated farm was 25,060 desiatiny of garden, hayfield and plowland, with the latter category being almost 70% of the total area.

   • 1982, Vsevolod Holubnychy, “The 1917 Agrarian Revolution in Ukraine”, in Iwan S. Koropeckyj, editor, Soviet Regional Economics: Selected Works of Vsevolod Holubnychy (The Canadian Library in Ukrainian Studies), Edmonton, Alta.: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, →ISBN, part I (Studies on Ukrainian Social and Political History), page 4:

     At the beginning of 1917 there were about 4,011,000 peasant households in Eastern Ukraine. Of these, 633,000 (15.8 per cent) had no land under cultivation; 802,000 (20.0 per cent) owned from 0.1 to 3.0 desiatiny per farm and were very poor; 2,230,000 (55.6 per cent) owned from 3.1 to 10.0 desiatiny, and were considered lower and middle class; the rest, 346,000 (8.6 per cent) owned more than 10.0 desiatiny each and were designated as rich peasants.

   • 2024, Peter Kolchin, “Emancipation Launched: Preparation, Process, Terms”, in Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part I (Process), page 60:

     In the non-black-earth zone the maximum size of allotments ranged from three to seven desiatiny per soul, while in the more fertile black-earth zone the range was 2.75 to six desiatiny; […]