’s regiment, igor svyatoslavovich.rutsk is mentioned nine times in the bubatiev chronicle. polotsk - 10, minsk - 8, and vitebsk - 6. it turns out that the name of the " princely settlement appears in the most ancient chronicles, as often as one of the most ancient cities of belarus, i suspect that it is no coincidence. the ancient settlement of drutsk is unique an archaeological monument, the only place in the country where all the features of the city of the early middle ages have been completely preserved. detinets, roundabout town, settlement, earthen ramparts, ditch , burial mound. there was a guard tower here. connections with kiev, the baltic states, smolensk and byzantium, found during numerous archaeological excavations. about a powerful principality that stood at the source of the belarusian statehood. many archaeologists believe that drutsk existed several decades earlier than the news that appeared about it in the chronicle. and it is not surprising that one of the first was founded here in 1001, and perhaps