Group
Rus' people
The Rus' are a group of Varangians, diverse groups of Norsemen.
According to the Primary Chronicle of Rus', compiled in about 1113, the Rus' had relocated from the Baltic region ("from over the sea"), first to northeastern Europe, creating an early polity which finally came under the leadership of Rurik.
Later, Rurik's relative Oleg captured Kiev, founding Kievan Rus'.
The descendants of Rurik are the ruling dynasty of Rus' (after 862), and of principalities created in the area formerly occupied by Kievan Rus, Galicia-Volhynia (after 1199), Chernigov, Vladimir-Suzdal, Grand Duchy of Moscow, and the founders of the Tsardom of Russia.
Member Cities
- Ardanuç Artvin Turkey Location
- Bakhchysaray Krym Ukraine Location
- Barda Barda Azerbaijan Location
- Belgorod Belgorodskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Belgorod-Dnestrovskij Odes'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Beloz'orsk Vologodskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Bergen Hordaland Norway Location
- Bila Tserkva Kyyivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Boguslav Kyyivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Bolgar Tatarstan Russia Location
- Brest Brest Belarus Location
- Bryansk > Br'ansk Bryanskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Budapest Budapest Hungary Location
- Cernigov > Chernigov > Chernihiv Chernihivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Chelm Chelm Poland Location
- Chernigov Chernihivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Chersonesos Khersons'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Constantinople > Istanbul Istanbul Turkey Location
- Constantinople Istanbul Turkey Location
- Czerwién Poznan Poland Location
- Dorpat > Tartu Tartumaa Estonia Location
- Esztergom Komarom-Esztergom Hungary Location
- Galic Ivano-Frankivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Gniezno Poznan Poland Location
- Goslar Niedersachsen Germany Location
- Kalisz Kalisz Poland Location
- Kalka River, Battle of the Donets'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Kamenec-Podol'skij > Kamianets-Podilskyi > Kamyanets-Podilsky > Kamieniec Podolski Khmel'nyts'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Kan'ov > Kaniv Cherkas'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Karakorum Arhangay Mongolia Location
- Kaspi Georgia Location
- Kerch > Kerc' Krym Ukraine Location
- Kiev > Kijev Kyyivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Kolomna Moskovskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Korosten' Zhytomyrs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Korsun' Donets'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Kozel'sk Kaluzhskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Kraków Krakow Poland Location
- Krasnodar Krasnodarskiy Kray Russia Location
- Krylos (Old Halych) Ivano-Frankivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Kursk Kurskaya Oblast Russia Location
- L'vov L'vivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Leczyca Plock Poland Location
- Lemberg > L'vov L'vivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Leningrad > St Petersburg Sankt-Peterburg Russia Location
- Liegnitz > Legnica Legnica Poland Location
- Luts'k > Luck > Lutsk Volyns'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Lwów > L'vov > Lviv L'vivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Mezhyhirskyi Monastery Kyyivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Minsk Minsk City Belarus Location
- Moscow > Moskva Moskovskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Nezin > Nizhyn Chernihivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Nizhny Novgorod (Gor'kij) Nizhegorodskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Novgorod Novgorodskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Novhorod-Siverskyi > Novgorod-Severskij Chernihivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Orsa > Orsha Vitsyebsk Belarus Location
- Ossiach Abbey Kïrtnen (Carinthia) Austria Location
- Ovruc Zhytomyrs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Perejaslav-Chmel'nickij > Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Kyyivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Pereyaslavets Tulcea Romania Location
- Philippopolis > Plovdiv Plovdiv Bulgaria Location
- Pliska > Shumen > Sumen Varna Bulgaria Location
- Polotsk > Polatsk Vitsyebsk Belarus Location
- Posechenoye Kurskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Poznan Poznan Poland Location
- Preslav > Veliki Preslav Bulgaria Location
- Przemysl Przemysl Poland Location
- Pskov Pskovskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Rakvere Laane-Virumaa Estonia Location
- Rostov Yaroslavskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Ryazan' > R'azan' Ryazanskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Samosdelka > Atil Astrakhanskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Sandomierz Tarnobrzeg Poland Location
- Sarai Ryazanskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Selitryannoye Astrakhanskya Russia Location
- Shchors > Snovsk Chernihivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Sigtuna Stockholms Län Sweden Location
- Silistra Razgrad Bulgaria Location
- Sis > Kozan Adana Turkey Location
- Sknyatino Tverskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Smolensk Smolenskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Spycimierz Konin Poland Location
- Sudak > Soldaia Krym Ukraine Location
- Suzdal' Vladimirskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Székesfehérvár Fejer Hungary Location
- Taman' Krasnodarskiy Kray Russia Location
- Tbilisi Georgia Location
- Terebovl'a Ternopil's'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Tmutarakan Krasnodar Krai Russia Location
- Torzok > Torzhok Tverskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Tripolje > Trypillia Kyyivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Turnovo > Veliko Turnovo Lovech Bulgaria Location
- Utrecht Utrecht Netherlands Location
- Vladimir Vladimirskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Volgograd (Stalingrad) Volgogradskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Volodymyr-Volynskyi Volyns'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Yaroslavl' Yaroslavskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Zaporozh'ye > Zaporozje Zaporiz'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Zawichost Tarnobrzeg Poland Location