 He organized the first Russian Scout troop "Beaver" (, "Bobr") in Pavlovsk, a town near Tsarskoye Selo, on 30 April 1909.In the winter of 1910–11 Pantyukhov met Baden-Powell in Saint Petersburg and then visited Scout organisations in England, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark.On the return he wrote the first Russian Scouting books "Памятка Юного Разведчика" (Handbook for the Young Scout) and "В гостях у Бой-скаутов" (Visiting the Boy Scouts) (both 1912).