Vladimir Megre (Russian: ?????´??? ??????´???? ?????´; né Puzakov; Russian: ??????´?) (born 23 July 1950 in Chernigov Oblast, USSR, now Ukraine) is a Siberian entrepreneur and writer best known as the author of the Ringing Cedars of Russia (also known as Anastasia) series of books, which since the 1990s has given rise to a homonymous socio-religious movement.