About the book: 2014 / This textbook by Professor A.I. Zhuravlev aims to show the continuity of the history of the Russian people, starting from the formation in the XII-X millennia BC. e. in Asia Minor (Anatolia) nations with a Slavic language, an agricultural way of life, an Indo-European (Caucasian) genotype, to this day. The opinions and data of almost all leading historians were used: Herodotus, Nestor, I.M. Dyakonov, L. Ter-Splavinsky, N. M. Karamzin, D. I. Ilovaisky, V. V. Mavrodin, B. A. Rybakov, V. V. Sedov, A. S. Bugay, L. N. Gumilyov, G. S. Grinevich, A. I. Asov, - as well as primary sources, including the “Veles Book”. The main attention is paid to the systematization of little-known historical data about the initial period of the history of the states of the Slavic-Russians: Skolots, Northerners, Tivertsev-Ulichi, Polyans, Drevlyans, Buzhan-Ants, Volynians, Polotsk , Vyatichi, Krivichi, Radimichi, Ilmen Slovenes - and their princely dynasties before the arrival of the Varangians. All known hypotheses of the origin of the Russian people are given. For high school students, students, history teachers of schools and universities.