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Cerlin said:
For the record, Scythians were very early steppe peoples of russia.
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That's probably a bit misleading in sense that Scythian state existed long time before the Russians have formed as a nation. Scythians lived in what is now southern Russia (and Southern Ukraine). Tribes that eventually formed Russian nation expanded into those areas from further north much later. It is probably that they had nothing in common with Scythians. Though the sources from that era are very scarce.