The Kievan Rus Period, roughly 882 to 1240, was the era of Kievan Rus, a loose federation of East Slavic and Finnic peoples centered on Kiev and founded, according to tradition, by the Varangian prince Oleg, that is regarded as the common ancestor state of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Its ruler Vladimir the Great adopted Orthodox Christianity from Byzantium in 988, a decision that shaped the religious and cultural trajectory of the East Slavic world for the following millennium, while Kiev itself grew into a major trading center linking Scandinavia to the Byzantine Empire along the Dnieper River trade routes. Kievan Rus fragmented into competing principalities from the twelfth century and was finally shattered by the Mongol invasion of 1237 to 1240, which destroyed Kiev and subjected most of the Rus principalities to Mongol overlordship.
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Geographic ScopeStretched from the White Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, and from the Carpathian Mountains in the west to the Taman Peninsula in the east 1 Connections
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1. Kievan Rus' - Wikipedia
Foundation of the Kievan state section
It then says that Oleg captured Smolensk and later Kiev in 882.
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The siege of Kiev in 1240 by the Mongols is generally understood as the end of Kievan Rus'.
Names section, description of territorial extent
At its greatest extent in the mid-11th century, Kievan Rus' stretched from the White Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south and from the Carpathian Mountains in the west to the Taman Peninsula in the east
In Group: Eras Beginning from 786 to 919 CE, Article text
from the late 9th to the mid-13th century
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