The book is devoted to reconstructing the ethnocultural history of the population of the forest-steppe Dnieper-Don interfluve from the turn of the 2nd-3rd centuries AD to the 8th century AD based on materials from burial complexes with cremations of five archaeological cultures: Kyiv, Chernyakhov, Kolochin, Penkovsky, Volyntsev, associated with ethnogenesis and the early history of the Slavs and the well-studied Slavic antiquities of Podonya and the Dnieper Left Bank of the end of the 1st millennium AD in this region. For historians, archaeologists, ethnographers.