300px, alt=a horse track in front of a large, wooden fort, Kyivan Rus' Park The Kyivan Rus' Park (; full name ''Ancient Kyiv in the "Kyivan Rus' Park"'') is a historical park and cultural center celebrating the

Kievan Rus' Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,. * was the first East Slavs, East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical At ...

, near

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.Kyivan Rus Park official page
/ref> The park is a venue for shows, cultural and historical festivals, horse-stunt events, and international championships in ancient martial arts. The park integrates Rus' culture with that of medieval Europe. In some events staged there it is possible to see both Rus warriors and medieval knights typical of Europe.

Organization

The Slavic Fund

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was founded to create a historical and cultural center about the Kyivan Rus'. The intent was to reconstitute and reconstruct the Kyiv Dytynets (the fortified part of Kyiv in the 5th to 13th century) with a maximum of historical, cultura, and architectural accuracy, as well as recreating the atmosphere of the epoch of Kyivan Rus'.

Location

The park is located in the village of Kopachiv,

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, 34 km from Kyiv.

Activities

The Park has expositions of siege equipment, historical costumes and armor of the V-XIII centuries, musical instruments, a museum of medieval shipbuilding with a scientifically reliable reconstruction of the boat "Prince Volodymyr" of the IX-XI centuries.

External links

Official website of Kyivan Rus' Park

References

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