Valery Shambarov’s historical and journalistic works captivate the reader with little-known topics and interesting facts, lively presentation of the material and bold author’s hypotheses. Earlier in this series, his book “White Guard” was published, presenting the complete history of the White Movement during the Civil War. And the work “Rus: a road from the depths of millennia” brought to your attention, which was published in 1999 and was immediately recognized as a bestseller, is dedicated to a much more distant period of our past. Based on rich documentary material, the author talks about powerful empires and civilizations that once existed on the territory of our country, summarizes facts, versions and hypotheses about the origin of the Russian people, their pre-chronicle statehood and the origins of ancient culture. In preparing this edition, the book was revised by the author and supplemented with a number of new data.