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Switching focus solely on suspension systems in the early 1980s. In 1984, Öhlins secured their first mountain bike fork. This later continued to be advancing to the shocks. In 1986, Yamaha Motor Company became co-owner of Öhlins Racing AB [5] but Öhlins continued to operate as an independent company within the Yamaha group. The company moved ...
Rurik Prince of Novgorod Rurik on the 19th-century "Millennium of Russia" monument in Veliky Novgorod Reign 862–879 [a] Successor Oleg Died 879 [a] Novgorod Issue Igor Dynasty Rurik Religion Norse paganism Rurik (also spelled Rorik, Riurik or Ryurik ; Church Slavonic: Рюрикъ, romanized: Rjurikŭ ; [b] Old Norse: Hrøríkʀ ; died 879) [a] was a Varangian chieftain of the Rus' who ...
Rurik (Рюрик) was a steam-powered frigate of the Imperial Russian Navy. She was ordered by the Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland for the Finnish naval equipage (Suomen Meriekipaasi). She was named in honour of Rurik, the semi-legendary founder of ancient Russia. Rurik was designed by Johan Eberhard von Schantz. [1]
881/2 (6390): Rurik's successor, Oleg, sent messengers to Askold and Dir, representing himself as a stranger on his way to Greece on an errand for Oleg and for Igor', the prince's son, requesting a meeting. He then ambushed Askold and Dir, saying: "You are not princes nor even of princely stock, but I am of princely birth."
The Rurik dynasty, [a] also known as the Rurikid or Riurikid dynasty, as well as simply Rurikids or Riurikids, [1] was a noble lineage allegedly founded by the Varangian prince Rurik, who, according to tradition, established himself at Novgorod in the year 862.
The calling of the Varangians in the Laurentian Codex (1377). According to Cross & Sherbowitz-Wetzor (translators of the 1930/1953 English editions of the Laurentian Codex), the invitation of the Varangians 'has inspired a larger volume of controversial literature than any other disputed point in Russian history.' [16] Contentions have centred on the meaning of the ethnonyms and toponyms used ...
Information about Igor comes mostly from the Primary Chronicle, which states that Igor was the son of Rurik: 6378–6387 (870–879). On his deathbed, Rurik bequeathed his realm to Oleg, who belonged to his kin, and entrusted to Oleg's hands his son Igor', for he was very young. 6388–6390 (880–882).
A direction in Russian pre-Soviet, [7] Soviet and post-Soviet historiography, whose supporters deny the role of the Scandinavians in the creation of the Rus' state [8] or deny at all any participation of the Scandinavians (Normans) in the socio-political life of Rus'; reject and seek to refute the "Norman theory" of the creation of the Kievan Rus'. [9]