Vodka and kvass If you mix on 100 ml of water and 100 ml of ethanol you will recieve 180 ml of vodka. Some of my friends from America and other countries think that everyone who lives in Russia have been drinking vodka since childhood. Another delusion, such as, that vodka is Russian drink. Vodka was developed in ancient times in the Arab countries, in Russia it appears in fourteenth centure. The more preferable drink for every Russian is kvass. It is grain soft drink, fresh and cool. Adults and children prefer it, instead of cola, in the summer, when weather is hot.