| 11. | In 1900 the company extracted some 45 million poods of coal becoming the third company in Donbas for coal extraction by volume.
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| 12. | In 1666, he cast a 29-pood bell of the Church of Peter and Catherine on Pokrovka and nine signal bells.
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| 13. | An old Russian proverb reads, " You know a man when you have eaten a pood of salt with him . " ()
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| 14. | One of them is a beautiful 60-pood ( 980 kg ) bell ( now in the Kolomenskoye museum ), cast in 1648.
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| 15. | The plan for the state grain collection in Ukraine adopted for 1931 was over-optimistic 510 million poods ( 8.4 Tg ).
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| 16. | The actual state of collection was disastrous however, and by 31 July only 3 million poods ( compared to 21 million in 1931 ) were collected.
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| 17. | The actual state of collection was disastrous, and by July 31, only 3 million poods ( compared to 21 million in 1931 ) were collected.
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| 18. | On November 29, in order to complete the plan, Ukraine was to collect 94 million poods, 4.8 million of them from sovkhozes.
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| 19. | In his 1953 short story " Matryona's Place ", Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn presents the pood as still in use amongst the Khrushchev-era Soviet peasants.
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| 20. | The cathedral's silver royal gates, Mazepa's reliquary ( weighing two poods of silver ) and other valuables were sold abroad or simply destroyed.
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