Rus or RUS may refer to:

People and places

* Rus (surname), a Romanian-language surname * East Slavic historical territories and peoples (). See Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia **

Rus' people The Rusʹ ( Old East Slavic: Рѹсь; Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian: Русь; Old Norse: '' Garðar''; Greek: Ῥῶς, ''Rhos'') were a people in early medieval eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were or ...

, the people of Rus' ** Rus' territories ***

Kievan Rus' Kievan Rusʹ, also known as Kyivan Rusʹ ( orv, , Rusĭ, or , , ; Old Norse: ''Garðaríki''), was a state in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical Atlas of ...

, a medieval East Slavic state, centered in Kiev ***

Rus' Khaganate The Rusʹ Khaganate ( be, Рускі каганат, ''Ruski kahanat'', russian: Русский каганат, ''Russkiy kaganat'', uk, Руський каганат, ''Ruśkyj kahanat''), is the name applied by some modern historians to a ...

, a ninth-century Eastern European state *** Ruthenia *** Vladimir-Suzdal (Vladimirian Rus'), an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Vladimir *** Principality of Halych (Halychian Rus'), an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Halych *** Principality of Volhynia (Volhynian Rus'), an East Slavic medieval state, in regions of Volhynia ***

Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia , conventional_long_name = Principality of Galicia–VolhyniaKingdom of Galicia–Volhynia , common_name = Galicia–Volhynia , status = Vassal state of the Golden Horde (from 1246) , era = Middle Ages , year_start = 1199 , year_end = 1349 , ...

(Halych-Volhynian Rus'), an East Slavic medieval state, uniting Halych and Volhynia ***

Kingdom of Rus' Kingdom commonly refers to: * A monarchy ruled by a king or queen * Kingdom (biology), a category in biological taxonomy Kingdom may also refer to: Arts and media Television * ''Kingdom'' (British TV series), a 2007 British television drama ...

, an East Slavic medieval kingdom (Galicia-Volhynia) *** Principality of Turov (Turovian Rus'), an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Turov ***

Principality of Polotsk The Principality of Polotsk ( be, По́лацкае кня́ства, ''Polackaje kniastva''; la, Polocensis Ducatus), also known as the Duchy of Polotsk or Polotskian Rus', was a medieval principality of the Early East Slavs. The origin and ...

(Polotskian Rus'), an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Polotsk ***

Novgorod Republic The Novgorod Republic was a medieval state that existed from the 12th to 15th centuries, stretching from the Gulf of Finland in the west to the northern Ural Mountains in the east, including the city of Novgorod and the Lake Ladoga regions of ...

(Novgorodian Rus'), an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Novgorod *** Grand Duchy of Moscow (Muscovite Rus'), an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Moscow *** Tsardom of Russia (Tsardom of Rus'), an East Slavic early modern state, centered in Moscow ***

Little Russia Little Russia (russian: Малороссия/Малая Россия, Malaya Rossiya/Malorossiya; uk, Малоросія/Мала Росія, Malorosiia/Mala Rosiia), also known in English as Malorussia, Little Rus' (russian: Малая Ру� ...

(Minor Rus'), an East Slavic historical region *** Great Russia (Great Rus’), an East Slavic historical region *** White Ruthenia (White Rus'), an East Slavic historical region *** Red Ruthenia (Red Rus'), an East Slavic historical region ***

Black Ruthenia Black Ruthenia ( la, Ruthenia Nigra), or Black Rus' ( be, Чорная Русь, translit=Čornaja Ruś; lt, Juodoji Rusia; pl, Ruś Czarna), is a historical region on the Upper Nemunas, including Novogrudok (Naugardukas), Grodno (Gardinas) a ...

(Black Rus'), an East Slavic historical region ***

Carpathian Ruthenia Carpathian Ruthenia ( rue, Карпатьска Русь, Karpat'ska Rus'; uk, Закарпаття, Zakarpattia; sk, Podkarpatská Rus; hu, Kárpátalja; ro, Transcarpatia; pl, Zakarpacie); cz, Podkarpatská Rus; german: Karpatenukrai ...

(Red Rus', Carpathian Rus'), an East Slavic historical region inhabited mostly by Rusyns (Rusynia), and a 1918–1919 provisional autonomous region, known as the "Rusyn Land" ***

(Subcarpathian Rus'), an administrative region of the First Czechoslovak Republic *** Western Rus (disambiguation) *** Principality of Rus' (disambiguation) *** Grand Principality of Rus' (disambiguation) ** Rus, a legendary eponymous ancestor, see

Lech, Czech and Rus Lech, Czech and Rus' (, ) refers to a founding legend of three Slavic brothers who founded three Slavic peoples: the Poles (or Lechites), the Czechs, and the Rus'. The three legendary brothers appear together in the ''Wielkopolska Chronicle'', ...

Acronyms

* Rajshahi University School * Réacteur Université de Strasbourg, a French nuclear research reactor * Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy, a laboratory technique * Route utilisation strategy * Rural Utilities Service, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture *Raptor Upper Stage, a version of the SpaceX Raptor rocket engine

Codes

* rus, the

ISO 639-2 ISO 639- 2:1998, ''Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code'', is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. The three-letter codes given for ...

code for the Russian language * RUS, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for the

Russian Federation Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia North Asia or Northern Asia, also referred to as Siberia, is the northern region of Asia, which is defined in geographic ...

* RUS, the IATA airport code for Marau Airport

Other places

* Ruś (disambiguation), the name of several Polish villages * Rus, Jaén, a municipality in the Province of Jaén, Spain * Rus, Sălaj, a commune in Sălaj County, Romania * Ruse, Bulgaria, Bulgaria *

Ruski Krstur Ruski Krstur (Serbian Cyrillic: Руски Крстур; Rusyn: Руски Керестур) is a village in Vojvodina, Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Kula, West Bačka District. The village has a Rusyn ethnic majority. Its popula ...

, Vojvodina, Serbia * Rus, a village in Dumbrăviţa Commune, Maramureș County, Romania

Other uses

* ''Rus'' (1903), a Russian newspaper published intermittently from 1903 to 1908 * Rus (special forces), a unit of interior troops of the Russian Federation * Rus-M, a cancelled Russian space rocket program

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