Pood (Пуд in Russian) or pud is a unit of mass equal to 40 funt (фунт, Russian pounds). It was approximately 16.38 kilograms (36.11 pounds). It was used in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Pood was first mentioned in a number of documents of the 12th century. Together with other units of weight of the old Russian weight measurement system, pood was abolished in the USSR in 1924. However, it may still be encountered in documents dealing with agricultural production (especially with reference to cereals). Mass is a property of physical objects that, roughly speaking, measures the amount of matter they contain. ... The international prototype, made of platinum-iridium, which is kept at the BIPM under conditions specified by the 1st CGPM in 1889. ... The pound is the name of a number of units of mass or weight, all in the range of 300 to 600 grams. ... (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... Weight is the interaction of matter with a gravitational field. ... Obsolete Russian weights and measures were used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution until they were replaced in the Soviet Union by a metric system in 1924. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a caryopsis). ...
Pood is also the name of a group of friends' organization. It isn't really an organization, but it is more like a Pencil and Paper RPG without the RPG.
According to the Soviet statistics, the authorities collected 107.9 million poods (1.77 mln.
metric tons) of bread and fodder in 1918–1919, 212.5 mln poods (3.5 mln.
Prodrazvyorstka allowed the Soviet government to solve an important problem of supplying the Red Army and urban population and providing raw material for different industries.
Then collectivization set in, and in 1929, 660 million poods were collected; in 1930 the government received 1.35 billion poods and in 1931, the number reached 1.47 billion.
In 1927 - 4.41 billion poods were produced 1928 - 4.34 billion, 1929 - 4.30 billion.
The author added that the statistics were first falsified in 1930; 5.24 billion poods were produced, a 20 percent increase over 1929, but people had to give 1.35 billion poods over to the government, a 105 percent increase over the previous year.
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