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nounthe medieval Russian state established by Scandinavian traders in the 9th century; the capital was first in Novgorod and then in Kiev
Definition that contains rus
- stalin Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
- lenin Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)
- scramble rushing about hastily in an undignified way
- tolstoy Russian author remembered for two great novels (1828-1910)
- horowitz Russian concert pianist who was a leading international virtuoso (1904-1989)
- gogol Russian writer who introduced realism to Russian literature (1809-1852)
- markov Russian mathematician (1856-1922)
- cascade rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
- pavlov Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936)
- putin Russian statesman chosen as president of the Russian Federation in 2000; formerly director of the Federal Security Bureau (born in 1952)