The next volume of the yearbook "The Oldest States of Eastern Europe" is devoted to the problem of how, when and in what forms historiography arises in the societies of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The articles collected in the volume reveal this problem on the material of ancient and medieval Eurasia, as well as pre-colonial Africa and pre-Columbian America. Particular attention is paid to the societies of early medieval Northern and Eastern Europe, including Ancient Russia.