In the English language, "verst" is singular with the normal plural "versts". In 15 versts of persecution, Russian troops scattered enemy forces. The area of the uyezd was 4,602.4 square versts. Akhmed withdrew two versts (kilometers) south to a place called Luza (location?). The main distribution pipeline, 108 versts long, was completed during Alekseyev's tenure in 1892. By 1579, the monastery owned 50 versts of ploughlands stretching towards Kargopol. In pursuit of the enemy, they are not further than 15 versts from Praga. In 1868 the distance from Malka to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was found to be 138 versts.