List of tribes and states in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine


The following is a list of tribes who lived on the territories of contemporary Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. The tribes were later replaced or consolidated by Slavs, starting with the formation of Kievan Rus', including the semi-autonomous principalities of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, that existed in the first half of the second millennium. The area was later expanded to become the Tsardom of Russia, followed by the Russian Empire, which became part of the Soviet Union.

Proto-Slavic people

See Proto-Slavic language
Clan cultures of the Stone Age and Bronze Age, up to the Late Antiquity period of the tribal societies that were replaced or incorporated into the Early Slavs.
See Early Slavs, Slavic peoples and Balto-Slavic languages
The Slavs were a diverse group of tribal societies in the Iron Age and Migration Age Europe whose tribal organizations created the foundations for today's Slavic nations.
See Slavicisation, Slavic peoples, East Slavs, West Slavs, South Slavs
From the Mongol invasion of Rus' to the Battle of Kulikovo
After the Battle of Kulikovo
After the Great stand on the Ugra river
Grand Duchy of Moscow
former Golden Horde countries
After the February Revolution:
After the Cold War: