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The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in 862, ruled by Varangians .
- The Arya People of Yamnaya Culture
- The People of Corded Ware Culture (Battle Axe Culture) – II Millennium BC
- Uralic Peoples
- Scythians
Indo-Europeans were neither a race nor an ethnic group – they were people that spoke proto-Indo-European languages. That’s all we know about them for certain – and this fact was proven by linguists. In IV-III milleniums BC, Indo-Europeans lived in the Pontic-Caspian steppe. Archaeological evidence shows that these people belonged to the Yamnaya arc...
The Corded Ware culture in the II millennium BC occupied a vast space in Europe from the Rhine to the Volga region. Their customs take their roots from the Yamnaya culture, and its people are considered the progenitors of Baltic and Slavic tribes. The Corded Ware culture was distinguished by two main traits: the men were buried with a battle axe, a...
Completely independent from Indo-European peoples, somewhere in the Ural mountains in VI-IV milleniums BC, people who spoke ancient Uralic language (Proto-Uralic) emerged. Their language had words for spruce, pine, fir, Siberian cedar, reindeer, sable, marten – which obviously described their surroundings. These people were fishermen and hunters. T...
Scythians were an ancient nomadic people who dominated the Pontic steppe in the 7th- 3rd centuries BC. They are distinguished by the method of burying their warrior riders, which involved the so-called Scythian triad – weapons, horses’ bridles, and jewelry. The Scythians’ name translates roughly as “shooters (archers).” They are widely mentioned in...
Russia - Soviet Union, Tsardom, Revolution: Indo-European, Ural-Altaic, and diverse other peoples have occupied what is now the territory of Russia since the 2nd millennium bce, but little is known about their ethnic identity, institutions, and activities. In ancient times, Greek and Iranian settlements appeared in the southernmost portions of ...
How did the Russains get to Russia? The first known people to set foot on Russian territory were called the Cimmerians. They ruled between 1000 and 700 BCE and were followed by the Scythians in 700 BCE. The Scythian nomads established a military state and defeated the Persians, but were nonetheless conquered by the Sarmatians in 3 BCE.
Historians say that the Finno-Ugric people were the first inhabitants of Russia, with many of our customs and fairytales descending from their civilization: the cult of ancestors, the love of forests and villages, our patience and communality. But what remains of the ancient civilization is contested.
Rus, ancient people who gave their name to the lands of Russia and Belarus. Their origin and identity are much in dispute. Traditional Western scholars believe them to be Scandinavian Vikings, an offshoot of the Varangians, who moved southward from the Baltic coast and founded the first.
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 the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD.
