The collection contains materials on excavations carried out by the Kyiv permanent expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR during 1973, in particular, research materials on the "city" of Vladimir and the "city" of Yaroslav, the surrounding areas of Kyiv, as well as the newly discovered log houses of Podil X-XI centuries. on Zhitny Torg. Theoretical developments on the design features of wooden buildings of Podil and the dendrochronological study of ancient Kyiv are also associated with excavations on Podil.