Vikings in Russia and the Normannist controversy

• Russian Primary Chronicle
• Evgenii N. Nosov, "The Varangian problem: Russian historical tradition vs. new archaeological evidence," in Studien zur Archäologie des Ostseeraumes. Von der Eisenzeit zum Mittelalter. Festschrift für Michael Müller-Wille, ed. by Anke Wesse (Neumünster, 1998), pp. 61-66 (Pack)
•  J. E. Montgomery, "Ibn Fadlan and the Rusiyyah," Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 3 (2000), 1-25 (available online)
  
•  A. L. F. Thulin, "The Rus' of Nestor's Chronicle," Mediaeval Scandinavia 13 (2000), 70-96 (Pack)
  
• see examples of a Scandinavian tortoise brooch, a Viking-age sword, and a hoard of dirhams
  
• see a map of the most important sites and a shaded relief map of Russia

Kievan Rus'

• Thomas S. Noonan, "The impact of the Islamic trade upon urbanization in the Rus' lands: the tenth and early eleventh centuries," In Les centres proto-urbains russes entre Scandinavie, Byzance et Orient. Actes du colloque international tenu au College de France en octobre 1997, ed. by Michel Kazanski, Anne Nercessian and Constantin Zuckerman (Paris, 2000), pp. 379-393 (Pack)
• David B. Miller, "Monumental building as an indicator of economic trends in Northern Rus' in the late Kievan and Mongol periods, 1138-1462," American Historical Review 94 (1989), 360-90 (available online)
• visit the St. Sophia Church and the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev