Ernst Rifgatovich Muldashev (Bashkir: Мулдашев, Эрнст Рифғәт улы; born January 1, 1948, Verkhne-Sermenevo, Beloretsky District, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) is a Russian surgeon ophthalmologist, general director of the All-Russian Center for Ophthalmic and Plastic Surgery in the city of Ufa and author of esoteric books.

Ernst Muldashev was born on January 1, 1948, in the village of Verkhne-Sermenevo, Beloretsky District, of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

He claims this material, surgically implanted in the eye, will help cure or stop the progression of a vast array of diseases and conditions, such as retinitis pigmentosa, diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, optic nerve atrophy, glaucoma, progressive myopia and retinopathy of prematurity.

[4][5][6] Expert ophthalmologists contacted by the media say scientific literature include no studies validating Muldashev's claims about Alloplant.

[citation needed] To finally unravel the secrets of this mystical country of Shambhala, an expedition of Russian scientists and climbers went to Tibet.