Pavel Vyacheslavovich Zarifullin was born in 1977 in Kazan. He is a lawyer and historian by education. Over the years, he led Eurasian humanitarian missions in Kosovo, South Ossetia (during the war), Transnistria, Crimea (during the peninsula’s reunification), Afghanistan, and Ukraine. Zarifullin, who has been Director of the Lev Gumilev Moscow Center since 2010, founded the International Movement “New Scythians.” He is a specialist in sacred geography; he has led dozens of expeditions to sacred “places of power” in Inner Eurasia: Yakutia, Mongolia, Tuva, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan, the Caucasus, the Russian North, Siberia, and the Far East. Zarifullin, as a theorist of Eurasianism and Scythianism, is an author of many books and essays published in both Russian and international media. He was awarded the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland,” 2nd Class, for promoting Russia’s interests abroad, and he was also awarded orders, medals, and commemorative badges of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).