Rus

Rus (Cyrillic: Русь), or RUS may refer to:

  • Rus' (name), the transliteration of the Slavic name for Ruthenia
    • Rus' (region), the associated territory
    • Rus' people, the people of Rus'
  • Rus (surname), a Romanian-language surname

Acronyms

Codes
  • rus, the ISO 639-2 code for the Russian language
  • RUS, the ISO 3166-1 code for the Russian Federation

Places

Historical
  • Rus' Khaganate, a state in Eastern Europe (9th century)
  • Kievan Rus', an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Kiev
  • Vladimirian Rus', an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Vladimir
  • Halychian Rus', an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Halych
  • Volhynian Rus', an East Slavic medieval state, in regions of Volhynia
  • Halych-Volhynian Rus', an East Slavic medieval state, uniting Halych and Volhynia
  • Kingdom of Rus', an East Slavic medieval kingdom (Galicia-Volhynia)
  • Turovian Rus', an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Turov
  • Polotskian Rus', an East Slavic medieval state, in region of Polotsk
  • Novgorodian Rus', an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Novgorod
  • Muscovite Rus', an East Slavic medieval state, centered in Moscow
  • Tsardom of Rus', an East Slavic early modern state, centered in Moscow
  • Minor Rus', an East Slavic historical region
  • Great Rus’, an East Slavic historical region
  • White Rus', an East Slavic historical region
  • Black Rus', an East Slavic historical region
  • Red Rus', an East Slavic historical region
  • Carpathian Rus', a historical region inhabited mostly by Rusyns (Rusynia)
  • Subcarpathian Rus' (1918-1919), provisional autonomous region, known as the "Rusyn Land"
  • Subcarpathian Rus' (1919-1938), administrative region of the First Czechoslovak Republic
  • Autonomous Subcarpathian Rus' (1938-1939), autonomous region of the Second Czechoslovak Republic

Contemporary
  • 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
  • Rus, a village in Dumbrăviţa Commune, Maramureș County, Romania
  • Ruse, Bulgaria, Bulgaria
  • Ruski Krstur, Vojvodina, Serbia

Technology
  • Unofficial name of Prospective Piloted Transport System, a Russian proposed manned spacecraft
  • Raptor Upper Stage or Raptor prototype upper-stage engine, a development of the Raptor rocket engine funded by USAF
  • Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy, a laboratory technique
  • Réacteur Université de Strasbourg, a French nuclear research reactor

Other uses
  • Rus (1903), a Russian newspaper published intermittently from 1903 to 1908
  • Rus (special forces), a unit of interior troops of the Russian Federation
  • Rus, a legendary eponymous ancestor, see Lech, Czech and Rus
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See also
  • Pyc (disambiguation), in Latin characters
  • Russ (disambiguation)
  • Western Rus (disambiguation)
  • Principality of Rus' (disambiguation)
  • Grand Principality of Rus' (disambiguation)
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