Vast Eastern European, in the most precise sense of the word "Eurasian," the territory on which no later than the 9th century. Kievan Rus was to arise, long before that moment ceased to be a desert in any respect. Being an area of ​ ​ powerful ethnic migrations, for many centuries it has sought to give rise to its adequate state expression, and here state or quasi-state entities have really appeared more than once, from time immemorial lay paths that connect different regions of Europe and Asia in different ways.