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Rus or RUS may refer to:

People

• East Slavic historical peoples (Русь). See Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia
  • Rus' people, the people of Rus'
  • Rus, a legendary eponymous ancestor, see Lech, Czech and Rus
• Rus (surname), a surname found in Romania and elsewhere

Historical places

• Kievan Rus', a medieval East Slavic state, centered in Kiev
• Rus' Khaganate, a ninth-century Eastern European state
• 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', 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 ISO 639-2 code for the Russian language
• RUS, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 and UNDP code for Russia
• 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

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-M, a cancelled Russian space rocket program
• Rüs, a 1990 role-playing game

See also

• Russ (disambiguation)
• Ríos (disambiguation)