Author of the book "From Hyperborea to Russia. The unconventional history of the Slavs" German Markov presents an unexpected original opinion about the place of origin of European civilization and the role of the Slavs in this process. Having been engaged in many years of searching and systematization of materials for writing a book on the history of the Russian people, the author, on the basis of evidence of historical sources and works of modern researchers, came to the reasonable conclusion that it is the territory of the central regions of Russia that is the place where the whole European civilization was born about 50-40 thousand years ago.