East Slavs

East Slavs
Усходнія славяне (Belarusian)
Восточные славяне (Russian)
Восточны славяне (Rusyn)
Східні слов'яни (Ukrainian)
  Countries with predominantly East Slavic population (Belarus, Russia, Ukraine)
Total population
210+ million[1]
Regions with significant populations
Languages
East Slavic languages:
Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, Ukrainian
Religion
Majority: Eastern Orthodoxy
Related ethnic groups
Other Slavs (West, South)
A young Ukrainian girl in a folk costume, by Nikolay Rachkov
Maximum extent of European territory inhabited by the East Slavic tribes—predecessors of Kievan Rus', the first East Slavic state[2]—in the 8th and 9th centuries.

The East Slavs are the most populous subgroup of the Slavs.[3] They speak the East Slavic languages,[4] and formed the majority of the population of the medieval state Kievan Rus', which they claim as their cultural ancestor.[5][6] Today Belarusians, Russians and Ukrainians are the existent East Slavic nations.[citation needed] Rusyns can also be considered as a separate nation, although they are often considered a subgroup of the Ukrainian people.[citation needed]

  1. ^ "East Slavic languages | Britannica".
  2. ^ Oscar Halecki. (1952). Borderlands of Western Civilization. New York: Ronald Press Company. pp. 45–46
  3. ^ Ilya Gavritukhin, Vladimir Petrukhin (2015). Yury Osipov (ed.). Slavs. Great Russian Encyclopedia (in 35 vol.) Vol. 30. pp. 388–389. Archived from the original on 2022-08-03. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  4. ^ Sergey Skorvid (2015). Yury Osipov (ed.). Slavic languages. Great Russian Encyclopedia (in 35 vol.) Vol. 30. pp. 396–397–389. Archived from the original on 2019-09-04. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  5. ^ Plokhy, Serhii (2006). The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (PDF). New York City: Cambridge University Press. pp. 10–15. ISBN 978-0-521-86403-9. Retrieved 2010-04-27. For all the salient differences between these three post-Soviet nations, they have much in common when it comes to their culture and history, which goes back to Kievan Rus', the medieval East Slavic state based in the capital of present-day Ukraine,
  6. ^ John Channon & Robert Hudson, Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia (Penguin, 1995), p. 16.

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