Rus

Rus or RUS may refer to:

• Rus (name) (Русь Rus' ), the transliteration of the Slavic name for Ruthenia
  • Rus' (region), the associated territory
  • Rus' people, the people of Rus'
• Historical states known as "Rus" are:
  • Rus' Khaganate, the formative phase of the polity during the 9th century
  • Kievan Rus'
  • Novgorod Republic
  • Kingdom of Rus' or Galicia-Volhynia
  • Vladimir-Suzdal Rus
  • The Tsardom of Russia or Muscovy
• Rus, a legendary eponymous ancestor, see Lech, Czech and Rus
• Rus (special forces), a unit of interior troops of the Russian Federation
• Rus (1903), a Russian newspaper published intermittently from 1903 to 1908

Places - 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, Maramureş County, Romania

Codes

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

People

• Arantxa Rus, Dutch tennis player
• Rus (surname), a Romanian-language surname

Technology

• Unofficial name of Prospective Piloted Transport System, a Russian proposed manned spacecraft
• RUS, an acronym for Recipient Update Service, a service of Microsoft Exchange Server
• Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy, a laboratory technique

Acronyms

• RUS, an acronym for Rural Utilities Service, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture
• Rajshahi University School
• Route utilisation strategy

See also

• Russ (disambiguation)
• History of the Rus