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56-579: Out of all the cities in the Vitebsk Oblast, Novopolotsk is the leading producer in the refining and chemical industry business. The entire city of Novopolotsk and Polotsk live and survive because of this industry. Naftan is the leading oil refinery. It was constructed in 1959. This refinery takes crude oil from the Volga Region of Russia and generates diesel, gasoline, and kerosine, along with other technological products. In addition to Naftan, Belarus built

112-545: A Khazar khagan named Khan-Tuvan Dyggvi, exiled after losing an internecine war , settled with his Kabar faction in the Norse-Slavic settlement of Rostov , married into the local Scandinavian nobility, and fathered the dynasty of the Rus' khagans. Zuckerman dismisses Pritsak's theory as untenable speculation, and no record of any Khazar khagan fleeing to find refuge among the Rus' exists in contemporaneous sources. Nevertheless,

168-497: A fortress on the Khazar border with Levedia and that only after the Magyars departed for the west in 889 did the middle Dnieper region start to progress economically. A number of historians, the first of whom was Vasily Bartold , have advocated a more northerly position for the khaganate. They have tended to emphasize ibn Rustah's report as the only historical clue to the location of

224-420: A "k(h)aganate". Other scholars have disputed this, as it would have been unlikely for an organisation of Germanic immigrants from the north to adopt such a foreign title. Some historians have criticised the concept of a Rus' Khaganate, calling it a "historiographical phantom", and said that the society of 9th-century Rusʹ cannot be characterised as a state. Still other scholars identify these early mentions of

280-541: A Rus' chacanus is to "the ruler of Kiev ". Some archaeologists have countered that there is no material evidence of a Norse presence in Kiev prior to the 10th century. Troublesome is the absence of hoards of coins which would prove that the Dnieper trade route – the backbone of later Kievan Rus' – was operating in the 9th century. Based on his examination of the archaeological evidence, Zuckerman concludes that Kiev originated as

336-500: A Rus' khaganate had existed, it must have disappeared before 900, as references to a Rus' khagan are last recorded in the 880s, and do not return until the 11th century. Various possible reasons for its disappearance have been suggested. The Primary Chronicle describes the uprising of the pagan Slavs and Chudes (Baltic Finns) against the Varangians, who had to withdraw overseas in 862. The Novgorod First Chronicle , whose account of

392-632: A Rus' political entity headed by a chacanus with the Kievan Rus' state commonly attested in later sources, whose princes such as Vladimir the Great , ( r.  980–1015 ) Yaroslav the Wise ( r.  1019–1054 ), and perhaps Sviatoslav II of Kiev ( r.  1073–1076 ) and Oleg I of Chernigov ( r.  1097–1115 ) were occasionally identified as kagans in Old East Slavic literature until

448-634: A collection of six federal subjects between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains , is generally considered as a part of the Volga Region, although the river does not run through each of them. Idel-Ural is within an extensive north-western protrusion of the Volga River's drainage basin , including numerous tributaries such as the Malaya Kokshaga River . It also includes sub-tributaries, such as

504-404: A large chemical plant, called "Polymir". This plant produces plastic and polyethylene . There are multiple products that could be produced from polyethylene, for example artificial fur. Novopolotsk is not very big in the tourism business. However, there are six hotels in the city available for tourists. Novopolotsk has produced several players for Belarus national bandy team . Daniil Garnitsky

560-460: A non-nomadic people'. Halperin also found it "highly anomalous" that a Christian prelate like Hilarion would 'laud his ruler with a shamanist title', adding in 2022: "The Christian ethos of the sermon is marred by Ilarion's attribution to Vladimir of the Khazar title kagan , which was definitely not Christian." Hilarion's Sermon on Law and Grace mentions the word kagan ( Old East Slavic : каганъ , romanized:  kaganŭ ) throughout

616-679: A relevant passage. In a legendary story about a siege of the Tsanars in the Caucasus in 854, mention is made of "the overlords ( sahib ) of the Byzantines ( al-Rum ), of the Khazars, and of the Slavs ( al- Saqaliba )", which Zuckerman connected with a supposed Rus' khagan . According to Zuckerman, Ibn Khordadbeh and other Arab authors often confused the terms Rus and Saqaliba when describing Caspian expeditions of

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672-654: Is twinned with: Former twin towns: In March 2022, the Polish city of Płock suspended its partnership with Novopolotsk as a response to Belarusian involvement in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . People from Novopolotsk: Volga Region The Volga region , known as the Povolzhye ( UK : / p ə ˈ v ɔː l ʒ eɪ / pə-VAWL-zhay , US : / p ə ˈ v oʊ l ʒ eɪ / pə-VOHL-zhay ; Russian: Поволжье , romanized : Povolžje , IPA: [pɐˈvoɫʐje] ; lit.   ' Along

728-637: Is President of the Belarusian Bandy Federation . Khimik-SKA Novopolotsk of the Belarusian Extraleague is the local pro hockey team. There are several culture centres, music schools, of which the Novopolotsk State Musical College , art schools, and libraries in the city. There is also a museum of history and culture of Novopolotsk. The city has an a cappella music group, which won an international award. Novopolotsk

784-525: Is a name applied by some modern historians to a hypothetical polity suggested to have existed during a poorly documented period in the history of Eastern Europe between c. 830 and the 890s. The fact that a few sparse contemporaneous sources appear to refer to the leader or leaders of Rus' people at this time with the word chacanus , which might be derived from the title of khagan as used by groupings of Asiatic nomads, has led some scholars to suggest that his political organisation can be called

840-454: Is considerable dispute over the circumstances of this borrowing. Peter Benjamin Golden (1982) rejected the idea that the Rus' could have appropriated the title of Qağan from the Khazars; the ruling Ashina clan would have had to voluntarily appoint a Rus' leader as a vassal Qağan for it to have any legitimacy. Golden concluded that the Rus' Khaganate was a puppet state set up by the Khazars in

896-508: Is today European Russia and Ukraine as a chronological predecessor to the Rurik dynasty and Kievan Rusʹ . The region's population at that time was composed of Slavs, Turkic , Baltic , Finnic , Hungarian and Norse peoples . The region was also a place of operations for Varangians , eastern Scandinavian adventurers, merchants, and pirates. Although since the 19th century various writers (some expressing anti-Normanist views) have asserted

952-659: The Belaya River which joins the Kama River, a tributary of the Volga. According to different sources, the region was mainly inhabited by Slavic, Turkic and Viking people. The Povolzhye played an important part of the emergence of the Rus' Khaganate . The Volga River was used mainly by traders from the Oriental and Viking world. The region is home to a large portion of Russia's population, with

1008-666: The Byzantine Empire , around 839. Fearful of returning home via the steppes , which would leave them vulnerable to attacks by the Magyars , these Rhos travelled through the Frankish kingdom accompanied by Byzantine Greek ambassadors from the Byzantine Emperor Theophilus . When questioned by the Frankish king Louis the Pious at Ingelheim , they stated that their leader was known as chacanus (hypothesized to be either

1064-701: The Kuban River . Neither of these theories has won many adherents, as archaeologists have uncovered no traces of a Slavic-Norse settlement in the Crimea region in the 9th century and there are no Norse sources documenting "khagans" in Scandinavia. The Russian anti-Normanist Stepan Gedeonov (1876) was the first historian to suggest that the Rhos ambassadors mentioned in the Annales Bertiniani sub anno 839 were Swedes in

1120-518: The Latin word for "khagan" or a deformation of Scandinavian proper name Håkan ), that they lived far to the north, and that they were Swedes ( comperit eos gentis esse sueonum ). Thirty years later, in spring 871, the eastern and western Roman Emperors, Basil I and Louis II of Italy , quarrelled over control of Bari , which had been besieged by Arabs. The Byzantine Emperor sent an angry letter to his western counterpart, reprimanding him for usurping

1176-660: The Turkic -speaking steppe peoples as "köl-beki" or "lake-princes", came to dominate some of the region's Finno-Ugric and Slavic peoples, particularly along the Volga trade route linking the Baltic Sea with the Caspian Sea and Serkland . According to Franklin & Shepard (1996, 2014), the account of the 860s Rus' expedition against Constantinople in the Primary Chronicle (which claims

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1232-594: The Volga Federal District and Volga economic region . The Volga Region is almost entirely within the East European Plain , with a notable distinction contrasting the elevated western side featuring the Volga Upland , and the eastern side known as Transvolga ( Russian : Заволжье , Zavolžje ). The latter consists of the elevated High Transvolga and the lowland Low Transvolga. The Idel-Ural region,

1288-575: The khagan interpretation again, arguing that one cannot just turn the c in the middle of chacanus into a g , adding that 'many Germanic names starting with phonetic h- were transcribed in Frankish sources with ch- ' , and concluding that the word most likely was the Swedish name Håkan , an explanation accepted by Ostrowski (2018). Assuming it reflects the Khazar-derived title khagan , there

1344-609: The 11th and 12th centuries, and are "fundamentally different". The Perso-Arabic (Islamic) sources mentioning a khāqān rus or Khāqān-i Rus all appear to follow a single common chain of tradition tracing back to the "Anonymous Note". The earliest claimed reference related to Rus' people ruled by a "khagan" comes from the Frankish Latin Annales Bertiniani , which refer to a group of Norsemen who called themselves Rhos ( qui se, id est gentem suam, Rhos vocari dicebant ) and visited Constantinople , capital of

1400-664: The 880s and 890s suggests that the Volga trade route ceased functioning, precipitating "the first silver crisis in Europe". After this economic depression and period of political upheaval, the region experienced a resurgence beginning in around 900. Zuckerman associates this recovery with the arrival of Rurik and his men, who turned their attention from the Volga to the Dnieper, for reasons as yet uncertain. The Scandinavian settlements in Ladoga and Novgorod revived and started to grow rapidly. During

1456-441: The Khazars. This theory is echoed by Thomas Noonan , who asserts that the Rus' leaders were loosely unified under the rule of one of the "sea-kings" in the early 9th century, and that this " High King " adopted the title "khagan" to give him legitimacy in the eyes of his subjects and neighboring states. According to this theory, the title was a sign that the bearers ruled under a divine mandate. Omeljan Pritsak speculated that

1512-1032: The Malaya Kokshaga River, and Dimitrovgrad on the Bolshoy Cheremshan River . Major cities located on tributaries of the Volga's tributaries include Moscow , the largest city and capital of Russia, on the Moskva River , a tributary of the Oka River. Kirov is located on the Vyatka River , and Ufa , Sterlitamak and Salavat are located on the Belaya River, both tributaries of the Kama River. 55°00′00″N 50°00′00″E  /  55.0000°N 50.0000°E  / 55.0000; 50.0000 Rus%27 Khaganate Rusʹ Khaganate ( Russian : Русский каганат , Russkiy kaganat , Ukrainian : Руський каганат , Ruśkyj kahanat ), or kaganate of Rus

1568-496: The Northmen do not have a khagan. From that, the non-extant letter of Basil I has been thought to have stated that the Northmen had a khagan, but we do not know that. (...) Besides, even if Basil's letter did assert that the ruler of the Northmen was called a khagan, that testimony is negated by the statement of Louis II that their ruler is not called a khagan.' Ahmad ibn Rustah , a 10th-century Persian Muslim geographer , wrote that

1624-593: The Rus' ( Rhos ) mentioned in the Annales Bertiniani and the other sources possibly mentioning a Rus' khagan were Slavic , the modern scholarly consensus is that the Rus' people originated in Scandinavia , possibly Sweden . According to the prevalent theory, the name Rus ' , like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden ( *Ruotsi ), is derived from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" ( rods- ) as rowing

1680-613: The Rus' khagan ("khāqān rus") lived on an island in a lake. Constantin Zuckerman comments that Ibn Rustah, using the text of the Anonymous Note from the 870s, attempted to accurately convey the titles of all rulers described by its author, which makes his evidence all the more invaluable. Ibn Rustah mentions only two khagans in his treatise—those of Khazaria and Rus. Hudud al-'Alam , an anonymous geography text written in Persian during

1736-500: The Rusʹ in the 9th and 10th centuries. But Ibn Khordādbeh's Book of Roads and Kingdoms does not mention the title of "khagan" for the ruler of Rus'. The three later Old East Slavic sources mentioning a kagan ( Hilarion of Kiev 's 11th-century Sermon on Law and Grace , and the 11th-century Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv inscription) or kogan (the 12th-century The Tale of Igor's Campaign ) have generally been understood to refer to

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1792-544: The Varangian traders in Rostov helped to raise the latter's prestige, with the consequence that by the 830s a new power center known as the Rus' Kaganate had come into existence." Whatever the accuracy of such estimates may be, there are no primary sources mentioning the Rus' or its khagans prior to the 830s. Omeljan Pritsak noted that the leader of those Kabars was Khan-Tuvan . Golden (1982) and Zuckerman (2000) concluded that if

1848-560: The Volga ' ), is a historical region in Russia that encompasses the drainage basin of the Volga River , the longest river in Europe, in central and southern European Russia . The Volga region is culturally separated into three sections: The geographic boundaries of the region are vague, and the term Volga region is used to refer primarily to the Middle and Lower sections, which are included in

1904-481: The basin of the Oka River to fend off recurring attacks of the Magyars . However, no source records that the Rus' of the 9th century were subjects of the Khazars. For foreign observers (such as Ibn Rustah), there was no material difference between the titles of the Khazar and Rus' rulers. Anatoly Novoseltsev hypothesizes that the adoption of the title "khagan" was designed to advertise the Rus' claims to equality with

1960-538: The diplomatic service of a Rusʹ ( Rhos ) khagan ( chacanus ), and thus that there was Rus' khaganate, and that these Rus' people were Slavic . Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen (1877) instead concluded "that Rhos was the Greek designation for the Scandinavians or Northmen, who in this case happened to be Swedes." According to Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1904), the Rhos envoys were "northern Germanic", but in

2016-587: The events Shakhmatov considered more trustworthy, does not pinpoint the pre-Rurikid uprising to any specific date. The 16th-century Nikon Chronicle attributes the banishment of the Varangians from the country to Vadim the Bold . The Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Braychevskiy labelled Vadim's rebellion "a pagan reaction" against the Christianization of the Rus'. A period of unrest and anarchy followed, dated by Zuckerman to c. 875–900. The absence of coin hoards from

2072-480: The first decade of the 10th century, a large trade outpost was formed on the Dnieper in Gnezdovo , near modern Smolensk . Another Dnieper settlement, Kiev, developed into an important urban centre roughly in the same period. The location of the purported khaganate, more specifically the residence of the supposed khagan , has been actively disputed since the late 19th century. Sites proposed by scholars have included

2128-479: The following sources has been taken by several scholars as evidence indicating either that there had never been a Rus' khaganate (Tolochko 2015, Ostrowski 2018), or that it must have disappeared by 911 (Zuckerman 2000), probably already before 900 (Golden 1982). The dating of the Khaganate's existence has been the subject of debates among scholars and remains unclear. Paul Robert Magocsi and Omeljan Pritsak date

2184-434: The following: Soviet historiography , as represented by Boris Rybakov and Lev Gumilev , advanced Kiev as the residence of the khagan, assuming that Askold and Dir were the only khagans recorded by name. Mikhail Artamonov became an adherent of the theory that Kiev was the seat of the Rus' Khaganate, and continued to hold this view into the 1990s. Halperin (1987) also stated that the 839 Annales Bertiniani reference to

2240-536: The foundation of the Khaganate to be around the year 830. According to Magocsi, "A violent civil war took place during the 820s. ... The losers of the internal political struggle, known as Kabars , fled northward to the Varangian Rus' in the upper Volga region , near Rostov , and southward to the Magyars , who formerly had been loyal vassals of the Khazars . The presence of Kabar political refugees from Khazaria among

2296-527: The khagan's residence. Recent archaeological research, conducted by Anatoly Kirpichnikov and Dmitry Machinsky , has raised the possibility that this polity was based on a group of settlements along the Volkhov River , including Ladoga, Lyubsha , Duboviki , Alaborg , and Holmgard (modern Rurikovo Gorodische ). "Most of these were initially small sites, probably not much more than stations for re-fitting and resupply, providing an opportunity for exchange and

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2352-575: The late 10th century ( c. 982–983 ), refers to the Rus' king as "Khāqān-i Rus". The unknown author of Hudud al-Alam relied on several 9th-century and 10th-century sources. Abu Said Gardizi , an 11th-century Persian Muslim geographer, mentioned "khāqān-i rus" in his work Zayn al-Akhbār . Ibn Rustah, the Hudud al-Alam and Gardizi all copied their information from the same late 9th-century source. Zuckerman (2000) argued that Ya'qubi , Kitab al-Buldan ("The Book of Countries", c. 889–890), also has

2408-426: The late 12th century. The word khagan for a leader of some groups of Rus' people is mentioned in several historical sources. According to Constantin Zuckerman (2000), these sources are divided into two chronological groups: three or four Latin and Arabic sources from c. 839 to c. 880 (which he labelled "1a, 1b, 1c"), while three Old East Slavic sources (labelled "2a, 2b, 2c") date from 200 years later in

2464-468: The major cities of Yaroslavl , Kostroma , Nizhny Novgorod , Cheboksary , Kazan , Ulyanovsk , Tolyatti , Samara , Saratov , Volgograd and Astrakhan all located directly on the Volga River. Other major cities on tributaries of the Volga include Ryazan , Dzerzhinsk , Kaluga and Oryol on the Oka River, Penza on the Sura River , Perm and Naberezhnye Chelny on the Kama River, Yoshkar-Ola on

2520-654: The raid originated in Kiev) was largely borrowed by the authors from a 10th-century Greek source, the Continuation of the Chronicle of George the Monk , which does not identify a point of departure. Since the 18th century, the debate on the word chacanus / Chacanus in the Annales Bertiniani has had two sides: it must either be understood as the title of the rex , namely khagan (first proposed by Siegfried Bayer in 1736), or that it

2576-664: The redistribution of items passing along the river and caravan routes". If the anonymous traveller quoted by ibn Rustah is to be believed, the Rus of the Khaganate period made extensive use of the Volga route to trade with the Near East , possibly through Bulgar and Khazar intermediaries. His description of the Rus' island suggests that their center was at Holmgard, an early medieval precursor of Novgorod whose name translates from Old Norse as "the river-island castle". The First Novgorod Chronicle describes unrest in Novgorod before Rurik

2632-449: The ruler of Kievan Rus'. According to Halperin (1987), the title kagan in the Annales Bertiniani sub anno 839, Hilarion's Sermon , and in The Tale of Igor's Campaign all apply to "the ruler of Kiev ". He agreed with Peter B. Golden (1982) that this reflected Khazar influence on Kievan Rus', and argued that the use of a "steppe title" in Kiev 'may be the only case of the title's use by

2688-506: The service of a "Rus' khagan", that was to be identified as the Slavic Rus' prince of Kiev . Vasil’evskii (1915) thought the Rhos were an indigenous people living near the mouth of the Dnieper into the Black Sea , and that the khagan was their Khazar master. Still others presume a Rus' khagan reigning over a state , or a cluster of city-states , set up by Rus' people somewhere in what

2744-507: The site of "Holmgard" trace back to 880(±20). According to one fringe theory, the Rus' khagan resided somewhere in Scandinavia or even as far west as Walcheren . In stark contrast, George Vernadsky believed that the khagan had his headquarters in the eastern part of the Crimea or in the Taman Peninsula and that the island described by Ibn Rustah was most likely situated in the estuary of

2800-441: The text, a total of five times. A colophon preserved in a 15th-century manuscript, at the end of a set of works usually attributed to Hilarion, adds one more mention: Быша же си въ лѣто 6559 (1051), владычествующу благовѣрьному кагану Ярославу, сыну Владимирю. Аминь. ("These things came to pass in the year 6559 (1051), during the reign of the pious kagan Jaroslav , the son to Volodimer, Amen." ) The absence of any khagan in

2856-435: The title of emperor. He argued that the Frankish rulers are simple reges , while the imperial title properly applied only to the overlord of the Romans, that is, to Basil himself. He also pointed out that each nation has its own title for the supreme ruler: for instance, the title of chaganus is used by the overlords of the Avars ( Avari ), Khazars ( Gazari ), and " Northmen " ( Nortmanni ). To that, Louis replied that he

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2912-529: Was a Scandinavian proper name, namely Håkon (first suggested by Stroube de Piermont in 1785). In 2004, Duczko stated: 'At present there is almost total unity of opinion that the title of the ruler of Rus is of Khazarian origin and that the word chacanus is a Latin form of the Turk word khagan , a title of a prime ruler in the nomadic societies in Eurasia.' He claimed that the Old Norse personal name interpretation 'was abandoned (though its supporters still appear from time to time).' Garipzanov (2006) challenged

2968-461: Was aware only of the Avar khagans, and had never heard of the khagans of the Khazars and Normans. The content of Basil's letter, now lost, is reconstructed from Louis's reply, quoted in full in the Chronicon Salernitanum ("Salerno Chronicle]"). According to Dolger, it indicates that at least one group of Scandinavians had a ruler who called himself "khagan", but Ostrowski (2018) countered: 'The letter of Louis II to Basil I states specifically that

3024-400: Was invited to come to rule the region in the 860s. This account prompted Johannes Brøndsted to assert that Holmgard-Novgorod was the khaganate's capital for several decades prior to the appearance of Rurik, including the time of the Byzantine embassy in 839. Machinsky accepts this theory but notes that, before the rise of Holmgard-Novgorod, the chief political and economic centre of the area

3080-400: Was located at Aldeigja-Ladoga. However, Nosov (1990) stated that archaeological evidence recovered at Rurikovo Gorodische puts the terminus post quem for the hill-fort's establishment decades later: dendrochronological analysis showed that trees used in construction at the site were felled between the years 889 and 948, and radiocarbon dating of charcoal samples collected from a ditch at

3136-458: Was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe , and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen ( Rus-law ) or Roden , as it was known in earlier times. The name Rus ' would then have the same origin as the Finnish and Estonian names for Sweden: Ruotsi and Rootsi . Around 860, a group of Rus' Vikings began to rule the area under their leader Rurik . Gradually, Norse warlords, known to

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