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Mar 21, 2022 · Currently, Russia is the country with the most Wikipedia downloads —by a landslide. Before the invasion, it rarely broke the top 10, but after the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, it has kept a solid...

The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start-date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in 862, ruled by Varangians. Staraya Ladoga and Novgorod became the first major cities of the new union of immigrants from Scandinavia with the Slavs and Finns.

Russian, like other Slavic languages, is an Indo-European language. Russian is one of the three main East Slavic languages ; the others are Ukrainian and Belarusian . More people speak Russian than any other Slavic language.

Russia (Russian: Россия, romanized: Rossiya, [rɐˈsʲijə]), or the Russian Federation, is a country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. It has land from the Baltic Sea to the Bering Strait . It is the largest country in the world , followed by Canada , the United States , and China .

The Russian alphabet (ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit, or ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka, more traditionally) is the script used to write the Russian language. It comes from the Cyrillic script , which was devised in the 9th century for the first Slavic literary language , Old Slavonic .

Russian given names are provided at birth or selected during a name change. Orthodox Christian names constitute a fair proportion of Russian given names, but there are many exceptions including pre-Christian Slavic names, Communist names, and names taken from ethnic minorities in Russia .

History of Russia Page Talk Read Edit Change source View history Tools The history of Russia begins with the East Slavs, Turkic, and the Finno-Ugric peoples. [1] [2] [3] [4] Parts of Southern Russia around the Black sea were settled by Greeks and Romans until about the 3rd century.