The commercial activities that had started with the silence and ease provided by the "Hazar Peace", helped to form the Russian-Slavic State, which is one of the important events in history. Along the Scandinavian-Byznatian commerce route, Slavic-Finnish mixed tribes, mostly occupied in hunting and honey production, were resident in regions with animals with valuable furs in their forests and rich of bees along the forest-steppe borders. These Slavic-Finnish tribes were subject to the administration of an adventurer group named Rus (Ross, Rhos<Rodh=sailor, in old Swedish language) originated from the fearless sailors Vareg (Norman)'s who came here from Scandinavia with the same commercial purposes.
Within this administration they have had gained a political formation comparable to the Hazar sample (first half of 9th decade). Due to the furs, honey, beeswax and items like this they had bought from the natives round Lake Ilmen the Vareg-Russians started trading with Byzantium and also tried to build up some small towns in that region. In the "firs chronic" (Nestor History. First quarter of 12th century) of the Russians it is told as a legend how in the 2nd quarter of 9th century the city Novgorod in the north of Ilmen had be the principality centre of a Vareg-Russian named Rurik and this "knez" (principality - this word originates from German) had been invited by some of the Slavic tribes who lived in the surroundings "to become the ruler".
Rurik, who had formed his state came to Sambata the Hazar centre (castle) in the fields of the Hazar dependent middle Dnyeper (in 862) under the title of publisher and got involved in commercial-political activities. After Rurik, the successor Oleg captured the, in this time progressing city Kiev (882). Therefore the name of Kiev, which as well as Sambata is said to been founded by the Turks, can only be explained in Turkish. The Turkish effects over the Russian principalities in this time can be seen clearly. The title of the ruler of the in 839 established "Rhos" (Russian) unity had been "chacanus" (khankanus=hakan=khanate). Both, prince Vladimir in 988, and later on principal Yaroslav (1036-1050) as they had accepted Christianity, still officially carried the title "kagan".
Inb Rusta (in 920's) Gerdizi and Frank chronicals (Annales Beriniani from 839) and Metropolit Hilarion (11th decade) always tell about the Russion "khane"s. In 10th century some parts of the city Kiev was calles "Kozari". In Turkish Kiev was also called "Mankermen" (= big fort) and it is mentioned that the Kremlin (= fort, castle) in Moscov had got his name from Turkish. It is possible to feel a Hazar-Turk population in the proclamation of the first Russian law "Russkaya Pravda", which explains the relations between the "drujina" (administrators) and the folk.