The collection is devoted to various problems of the history and culture of the Permian peoples of the 1st - early 2nd millennium AD: the chronology of archaeological sites, the identification of the peculiarities of the material culture of the early medieval population of the Kama region and the reflection of ethnocultural ties in it, the search for the ancestral home of the Prapermians, etc. In many articles, new archaeological material is introduced into scientific circulation.