Rus or RUS may refer to:

People

* East Slavic historical peoples (). See

Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia The word ''Rus'' referred initially to a group of Scandinavian Vikings, also known as Varangians, who founded the medieval state of Kievan Rus' in Eastern Europe in the 10th century. The term gradually acquired the meaning of the aforementione ...

Rus' people The Rus, also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes between t ...

, the people of Rus' ** 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 Polish people, Poles, the Czechs, and the Rus' people, Rus' (Belarusians, Russians, Rusyns, and Ukrainians). The three legendary ...

* Rus (surname), a surname found in Romania and elsewhere

Historical places

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 ...

, a medieval East Slavic state, centered in Kiev * Rus' Khaganate, a ninth-century Eastern European state *

Ruthenia ''Ruthenia'' is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin, as one of several terms for Rus'. Originally, the term ''Rus' land'' referred to a triangular area, which mainly corresponds to the tribe of Polans in Dnieper Ukraine. ''Ruthenia' ...

* Vladimirian Rus', or Vladimir-Suzdal, an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Vladimir * Halychian Rus', or Principality of Halych, an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Halych * Volhynian Rus', or Principality of Volhynia, an East Slavic medieval state, in regions of Volhynia * Halych-Volhynian Rus', or Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, an East Slavic medieval state, uniting Halych and Volhynia * Kingdom of Rus', or Galicia-Volhynia, an East Slavic medieval kingdom * Turovian Rus', or Principality of Turov, an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Turov * Polotskian Rus', or Principality of Polotsk, an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Polotsk * Novgorodian Rus', or Novgorod Republic, an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Novgorod * Muscovite Rus', or Grand Duchy of Moscow, an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Moscow * Tsardom of Rus', or Tsardom of Russia, an East Slavic early modern state, centered in Moscow * Minor Rus', or Little Russia, an East Slavic historical region * Great Rus', or Great Russia, an East Slavic historical region * White Rus', or White Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region * Red Rus', or Red Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region * Black Rus', or Black Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region *

Carpathian Rus' Transcarpathia (, ) is a historical region on the border between Central and Eastern Europe, mostly located in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast. From the Hungarian Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, conquest of the Carpathian Basin ...

, or Carpathian Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region inhabited mostly by Rusyns (Rusynia), and a 1918–1919 provisional autonomous region, known as the "Rusyn Land" * Subcarpathian Rus', or Carpathian Ruthenia, an administrative region of the First Czechoslovak Republic * Western Rus (disambiguation) * Principality of Rus' (disambiguation) * Grand Principality of Rus' (disambiguation)

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

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Russian language Russian is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is ...

* RUS, the

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Russian Federation Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

* 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, Vojvodina, Serbia * Rus, a village in Dumbrăviţa Commune, Maramureș County, Romania * Rushall railway station, Melbourne

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