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5 unusual facts about rus.


Ruś

Ruś, Olsztyn County, a village in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland

Ruś, Ostróda County, a village in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland

Rus-M

The program was halted in October 2011; "We have come to the conclusion that we do not need a new rocket, we can continue using those we already have," said Vladimir Popovkin, head of Russia's space agency, according to the Novosti news agency.

Spycimierz

Spycimierz was located at the junction of two important trails, from Pomerania to Rus, and from Leczyca to Kalisz.

Szymon Okolski

In 1648 Okolski accepted the post of the prowincjał (province leader) of the Dominican Order in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth-controlled Ruś territories.


Alisa Selezneva

Alisa (Alice) Selezneva or Seleznyova (rus. Алиса Селезнёва) is the main character of the series of children's science fiction books by Russian writer Kir Bulychov.

Anna Samokhina

She is best known as the leading actress in Yuri Kara's Barons of Crime (rus. Воры в законе, literally Thieves within the Law) - the most outgiving, brutal and controversial Soviet film, about mafia and corruption in the late USSR.

Battle of the Sit River

The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Sonkovsky District of Tver Oblast of Russia, close to the selo of Bozhonka, on March 4, 1238 between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Rus' under Grand Prince Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus.

Dairy Council of California

The Director of Education, Rus Shortridge worked with the well known teacher, Madeline Hunter from UCLA University Elementary School to develop the educational methodology behind the new programs.

Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow

However, Mikhail died on his way there and one of his accompanying clergymen, Archmandrite Pimen, reached Constantinople (Slavonic: Tzargrad) before Dionysius and was named Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus' in place of Mikhail.

Golden Gate, Kiev

Golden Gates in Vladimir, the only extant example of a gateway of medieval Rus’

Greeks in Russia and the Soviet Union

Subsequently Byzantine power in the Black Sea region waned, but ties between the two people were strengthened tremendously in cultural and political terms with the baptism of Prince Vladimir of Kievan Rus in 988 and the subsequent Christianization of his realm.

Halych Raion

In the 13th century the Halych Principality as part of the Ruthenian (Rus) Kingdom stretched from Peremyshl to Podolia, form Mukacheve to Terebovl, and from Busk to the Southern Bucovina.

House of Anjou

The Capetian House of Anjou, a cadet branch of the House of Capet, who were Kings of Sicily, Naples, Hungary, Poland, Kings of Rus and Albania amongst others

Igor of Kiev

He twice besieged Constantinople, in 941 and 944, and in spite of part of his fleet being destroyed by Greek fire, concluded with the Emperor a favourable treaty whose text is preserved in the chronicle.

Jonathan Shepard

Among Shepard's theories is that the breakdown in Byzantine-Khazar relations and the shift in Byzantine foreign policy towards allying with the Pechenegs and the Rus against Khazaria was a result of the Khazar conversion to Judaism.

Kent Route Utilisation Strategy

Uniquely, this RUS area encompasses the only dedicated very high-speed railway in the United Kingdom, the so-called High Speed 1 (HS1), over which domestic, as opposed to the established international, services started a few weeks prior to publication of the RUS.

Konrad Wagner

Konrad Eduardovich Wagner (rus. Конрад Эдуардович Вагнер, July 17, 1862, Praszka – after 1948, Kalisz) was a Russian-Polish physician, professor of the University of Kiev, University of Moscow, Taurida University of Simferopol and University of Warsaw.

Leo Sarakenopoulos

Leo Sarakenopoulos first appears in 971, at the end of the Rus'–Byzantine War of 970–971, when he was appointed by Emperor John I Tzimiskes (r. 969–976) as military governor (strategos) of Dristra/Dorostolon (modern Silistra) on the Danube.

Mongol invasion of Rus'

Refugees from southern Rus' moved mostly to the northeast, into the forested region with poor soils between the upper Volga and the Oka Rivers.

Mykhaylo Koman

Since 1946 Koman joined newly formed Soviet clubs Partizan Vinogradov and Rus Bushtina (Bushtyno) as well as participated at the All-Ukrainian Spartakiad representing the Zakarpattia region.

Nestor the Chronicler

As an eyewitness he could describe only the reigns of Vsevolod I and Svyatopolk II (1078–1112), but he could have gathered many interesting details from the lips of old men, two of whom could have been Giurata Rogovich of Novgorod, who could give him information concerning the north of Rus', Pechora River, and other places, and Yan Vyshatich, a nobleman ninety years of age, who died in 1106.

Niello

John Tsetses, a 12th-century Byzantine writer, praised the work of Kievan Rus artisans and likened their work to the creations of Daedalus, the highly skilled craftsman of Greek Mythology.

Omeljan Pritsak

In addition to the early Rus', Pritsak's works focused on Eurasian nomads and steppe empires such as those created by the Bulgars, Khazars, Pechenegs, and Kipchaks.

Pereyaslavl

Principality of Pereyaslavl - a medieval Eastern Slavic state of the Rus from 1175 to 1302

Polish Expedition to Kiev

Boleslaw I's intervention in the Kievan succession crisis, 1018, a Polish intervention into who would be ruler of Kiev and the state of Kievan Rus'

Połock Voivodeship

“Połock, in Latin Polocia, Polocium, lies on the right bank of the Dvina, and is regarded as one of the oldest gords of Rus’.

Radzyń Podlaski

In the early years of Polish statehood Radzyń was located in extreme northeastern corner of Lesser Poland, near the border with Rus and the Duchy of Lithuania.

Raffelstetten customs regulations

Vasily Vasilievsky notes that the document, being the first legal act to regulate the trade of the Rus', capped off a long tradition of trade between Germany and Kievan Rus.

RPO-A Shmel

The RPO-A "Shmel" (Rus. "РПО-А Шмель") ("Bumblebee") is a man-portable rocket launcher although it is classified as a flamethrower (Rus. Реактивный Пехотный Огнемет) by the manufacturer, KBP, Tula.

Russia–Ukraine relations

Kiev, the modern capital of Ukraine, is often referred to as a mother of Russian Cities or a cradle of the Rus' civilisation owing to the once powerful Kievan Rus' state, a predecessor of both Russian and Ukrainian nations.

Ruthenian Voivodeship

Since these times the name Ruś Czerwona is recorded, translated as "Red Ruthenia" ("Czerwień" means red in Slavic languages, or from Polish village Czermno), applied to a territory extended up to Dniester River, with priority gradually transferred to Przemyśl.

Sarkel

Alexander Vasiliev and George Vernadsky, among others, argue that Sarkel was built to defend a vital portage between the Don and the Volga from the Rus' Khaganate.

Skipton-East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership

The proposal to reinstate the line is considered in the Draft Lancashire and Cumbria Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) from Network Rail.

Solomon Globus

He took 6th at Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius) 1909 (the 6th All-Russian Masters' Tournament, Akiba Rubinstein won), and took 13th at Vilna 1912 (the 7th RUS-ch, B-tournament, Karel Hromádka won).

South London Route Utilisation Strategy

Another project that does not directly form part of the RUS area but has a knock-on effect certainly to passenger services and possibly to freight services is High Speed One (HS1).

Syed Ali Akbar

He was the Chief editor of the well-known English language quarterly Islamic Culture and President of Idara Adabiat Urdu which published monthly magazine Sub Rus for 20 years.

Sylvestr

Sylvester of Kiev (c. 1055 - 1123), clergyman and writer in Kievan Rus

The State Museum of the History of St. Peterburg

The State Museum of the History of St. Peterburg (Rus. Государственный музей истории Санкт-Петербурга), formerly Museum of Leningrad History from 1955 to 1991, is a museum of the city history in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Tmutarakan

The Mandgelis Document, a Hebrew letter dated AM 4746 (985–986) refers to "our lord David, the Khazar prince" who lived in Taman and who was visited by envoys from Kievan Rus to ask about religious matters.

Top Model po-russki

Top Model po-russki (rus. Топ-модель по-русски — Russia's Next Top Model) is a Russian reality documentary, and the second Russian adaptation of Tyra Banks', America's Next Top Model after You are a Supermodel which aired from 2004 to 2007, and had four cycles.

Varyag

Varangians, ancestors of the Rus' sometimes called "Vikings" in English publications

Volkhov River

In the mid-9th century, the Volkhov was a heavily populated trade artery of the Varangian-dominated Rus' Khaganate.

Volyn Oblast

Volyn was once part of Kievan Rus' before becoming an independent local principality and an integral part of the Halych-Volynia, one of Kievan Rus' successor states.

Vsevolod the Big Nest

On his return from the Byzantine Empire to Rus' in 1170, Vsevolod supposedly visited Tbilisi, as a local chronicle records that that year the Georgian king entertained his

Western Krai

After 1819, Grodno, Vilnius (rus. Vilna, pol. Wilno), Minsk, Volhynia (pol. Wołyń), Podolia (pol. Podole) governorates and the Belostok Oblast remained under the chief administrative management of the Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia.

Yaropolk III Yaroslavich

At the beginning of 1212, Yaropolk’s cousin grand prince Vsevolod IV Svyatoslavich of Kiev waged war against the Rostislavichi, and kicked them out of Rus'.


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