List of buildings of pre-Mongol Rus
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This is a complete list of the currently existing buildings created in the
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 ...
before the
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of the 1230s. Almost all these buildings are churches: only three secular buildings survived from the period. Most of the churches were completely rebuilt over the years and lost some essential features of the Old Rus architecture. Some were destroyed in the 20th century and then replicas were built years later. These churches are included in the list. Churches that were destroyed and subsequently rebuilt without any attempts of scientific reconstruction (the
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and the Saint Michael Cathedral of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, both in
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) are not included. The list is organized geographically, roughly corresponding to the main principalities of the Kievan Rus. Inside these divisions, the entries are sorted by the date of the first creation.


Kiev Land


Chernigov Land


Pereyaslavl Land


Novgorod Land


Vladimir-Suzdal Land


Smolensk Land


Polotsk Land


Grodno Land


Volyn Land


Galich Land


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* {{cite book, last=Раппопорт, first=П. А., title=Русская архитектура X — XIII вв. Каталог памятников., url=http://rusarch.ru/rappoport1.htm, accessdate=February 26, 2012, year=1982, publisher=Наука, location=Saint Petersburg
Rus 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 people of Rus' ** Rus' territories *** Kievan ...
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