Askr Svarte

Either in their community of pagans Svarte Aske they celebrating pagans dates and running an Asatru unity since 2011.

In 2011 Askr created the community of pagans Svarte Aske unites representatives of Rodnovery and Odinism for the purpose of mutual assistance, advocacy of pagan worldview and spiritual self-knowledge. Since 2011 to nowadays community members celebrates solar dates and traditional holidays. One of the important activities of the community is the proliferation of videos, articles and books about paganism. Under the auspices of the community a number of articles, interviews and books has been translated into Russian and European languages. The Community develops and promotes the pagan philosophy and theology.

Askr Svartr was a former member of the far-right extremist Eurasian Youth Union, and was the head of the local chapter in 2011–2013.

Since 2012 Askr started to practice and write about the Left Hand Path in Odinism, as he called his view "Svarte Aske" that means "the way through darkside of Yggdrasil". This doctrine has common features with Hindu Tantra and Aghora, and with Veleslavs doctrine of "Шуйный путь". With emphasis on the existential experience of Nigredo stage and human being in Iron Age. From 2011 to 2014 Askr Svarte publish a several books with descriptions of his own spiritual and existential experience. With Veleslav he met in 2011, and since then maintained friendly relations and implement joint projects. His thought also influenced by René Guénon, Julius Evola, Martin Heidegger and Aleksandr Dugin.

Askr Svarte is the author of several books about pagan traditionalism, Left Hand Path in Odinism and numerous polemic articles, including Gap (2013), Polemos: The Pagan Traditionalism (in two volumes, 2016), Approximation and encirclement (2017). The book Gap was republished under the title The Fascinating Abyss (2016) and was released in English under the title Gap: the Left Hand Path approach to Odinism.

Also participated in the first russian heathen magazine Rodnovery (2014), in the Ukrainian Internatianal Almanah Традиция и Традиционализм (2012-2013) and Традiция и традiцiоналiзм (2014-2015). In collaboration with Russian religious scholar Roman Shizhensky he took a part in the second volume of scientific almanach about Russian neopaganism the Colloquium Heptaplomeres (2015).

Additionally he is also an author of first documentary movie about paganism in the city Novosibirsk Языческий Новосибирск (2014). In 2015 he joined to the project of documentary movie about Russian general Roman von Ungern-Sternberg supported by Russian Ministry of Culture and called The Last Campaign of Baron.

Since 2015 he is the chief editor of the annual traditionalist almanac Warha. To date, five issues of the almanac published including articles by authors such as the Richard Rudgley, Alain de Benoist, Stephen McNallen, Collin Cleary, Giovanni Sessa, Stefano Arcella, Giuseppe Armin, Wulf R. Grimsson, Veleslav, etc.

Evgeny Nechkasov is a descendant of Bessarabia Germans, were deported to Siberia on the eve of World War II. As a young man he wonders about the role of religion in life and become a pagan. Firslty he joined to Rodnovery, but soon finally rooted in German-Northern Tradition. According to his words: I don’t oppose Odinism to Asatru or other name-for-tradition, for me the names are secondary thing.