Sazhen to Meter Converter

About this calculator

The sazhen was a traditional Russian unit of length used before the country adopted the metric system in 1918, equal to three arshins or seven English feet, which fixes it at exactly 1 sazhen = 2.1336 meters. It sits inside an older Russian system that also included the arshin and the versta, all commonly seen in pre-revolutionary land records, church and building plans, and classic Russian literature such as measurements of a room or a person’s height.

Historians, genealogists, and museum curators reading old Russian deeds, maps, or architectural drawings still need to convert sazhen figures into meters to understand actual sizes. This calculator lets you enter a value in either unit and instantly get the equivalent in the other, using the standard 2.1336 m conversion factor.