The Great RUSSIA Was Founded Here! STARAYA LADOGA, Russia

Staraya Ladoga (Old Ladoga), formely known as just Ladoga. One of the oldest settlements in Russia, founded in 753 where Russia itself was founded. It is located in 570km northwest from Moscow on the bank of Volkhov river, not far from its confluence with Lake Ladoga.

According to the Chronicles, Gostomysl, the elder leader of the tribes of Ilmen Slavs, invited the Varangian Rurik to reign on the territory of a contemporary northwestern Russia where lived such a slavic and finno-ugric tribes as Ilmen Slavs, Krivichis, Chud, Merya and Ves.

Prince Rurik came to Ladoga in 862 and started the process of unification of those Slavic and Finno-ugric tribes into the one single state - the state of Russia.

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