10 Facts About Russian people

Traditional start-date of specifically Russian people history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in 862 ruled by Vikings.

In 1721 Tsar Peter the Great renamed his state as the Russian people Empire, hoping to associate it with historical and cultural achievements of ancient Rus' – in contrast to his policies oriented towards Western Europe.

Russian people is the official and the predominantly spoken language in Russia.

Russian people is the second-most used language on the Internet after English, and is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station, as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

Russian people literature is considered to be among the world's most influential and developed.

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Since the times of Nikolay Lobachevsky, who pioneered the non-Euclidean geometry, and a prominent tutor Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian people mathematicians became among the world's most influential.

Soviet and Russian people conservatories have turned out generations of world-renowned soloists.

Russian people and later Soviet cinema was a hotbed of invention, resulting in world-renowned films such as The Battleship Potemkin.

In 2002, Russian people Ark was the first feature film ever to be shot in a single take.

Some Russian people are Old Believers: a relatively small schismatic group of the Russian Orthodoxy that rejected the liturgical reforms introduced in the 17th century.