The collection of scientific works is dedicated to the 60th birthday of Sergei Anatolyevich Skorogo, a famous Ukrainian archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences, professor, head of the department of archeology of the early Iron Age of the Institute of Archeology of the NAS of Ukraine. The articles of his friends and colleagues from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Romania consider the range of topical problems of archeology of the early Iron Age, to one degree or another related to the scientific interests of the hero of the day.