The monograph covers the history of the East Slavic population of the VIII- IX centuries. between the Dnieper and the Carpathians. On the basis of a comprehensive analysis of archaeological sites of the Raikovets culture (settlement structures, burial grounds, places of worship), as well as the wide involvement of written, ethnographic numismatic sources, osteological and paleobotanical materials, a significant range of issues of socio-economic development, a complex world of primitive beliefs of the population, which created them.