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