The course is designed in a popular form to acquaint them with a modern scientific approach to understanding the ways of becoming a nomadic way of economy and one of its most striking manifestations - the culture and lifestyle of the legendary Scythians, as well as other peoples who entered the early political formation they created, which can rightfully be called Great Scythia. In addition, it tells about the historical fate of this population after the collapse of Great Scythia, the history and culture of the successors of Great Scythia - tribal associations of the Sarmatians.