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The monuments of the Tomashovka group are in the Bug-Dniester area and concern to a stage C I of the development of the Tripolye culture. The given group alongside with the earlier Vladimirovka and Nebelevka groups make a uniform evolutionary line of the development, which genetic roots are fixed in “western” Cucuteni monuments of the Ariusd-Cucuteni-Tripolye generality. Among a ceramic complex of group to technological, morphological, stylistic attributes the restaurant (painted) utensils is determined. Under the form 11 types of vessels are allocated. In a painting is established 7 ornamentical schemes for bowls and 12 schemes for other types. The Tomashovka utensils continues the local potter traditions of the Nebelevka group, but on its formation the ceramics of the Shipenets (Dniestr area) and Chechelnik (Bug area) groups also has rendered strong influence. In turn, the Tomashovka group ceramics influenced on the development of the Chechelnik utensils, and stylistic borrowings and straight linees imports of vessels were fixed in the complexes of the Petreny group settlements. The Tomashovka group imports are fixed even in materials of the Cucuteni settlements. Some of Tomashovka and Chechelnik groups elements of ornaments, but already in the transformed kind, meet on the vessels of monuments such as Varvarovka XV, which mark transition to the Latest Tripolye.