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| c. 24,000 years ago |
| | | An unusually decorated female figurine is carved from limestone at Kostenky, in the river Don region of Russia | |
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| c. 23,000 years ago |
| | | Someone carves a figure of a flying bird, in mammoth ivory, in the Malta settlement in Siberia | |
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| c. 18,000 years ago |
| | | A bison figurine is carved in mammoth ivory in the region of Zaraysk, southeast of Moscow | |
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| c. 4000 BC |
| | | In Mesopotamia, and on the grass steppes of southern Russia, oxen are used to pull heavy loads on sledges | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Slavs settle in the regions of eastern Europe and western Russia | |
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| c. 825 |
| | | Viking tribes known as the Rus are established as traders in the region of Novgorod | |
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| 882 |
| | | Oleg, leader of the Rus, seizes the town of Kiev and makes his headquarters there | |
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| c. 987 |
| | | Vladimir, the prince of Kiev, decides that Greek Orthodoxy is the most suitable religion for the Russian people | |
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| c. 1030 |
| | | Yaroslav builds up his Russian kingdom and turns his capital, Kiev, into a spectacular Christian city | |
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| c. 1030 |
| | | Yaroslav commissions Russkaya Pravda ('Russian truth'), a code of Russia's laws | |
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