Pages: 333-353

The article is devoted to the analysis by the home historiography of the problem of the Great Greek colonization and the Greek-Barbarian contacts in the Northern Black Sea region. In the studying of this the author distinguishes 4 basic periods the first of which embraces XIX — the 1st quarter of XX c.; the second — 20s-50s of the XX c.; the third — 50s-early 70s; the fourth — since 70s — to present. Defining the main ideas and approaches, that comprise the theoretic base of each period, the author did a great generalizing work. This allowed him to offer a very capacious and informative picture of the development of views of the home scientists to this problem. Summing up more than a century old researches, the author notes that, unfortunately, they have not been crowned till present with some complete and coordinated in time and space picture of the relations between Greeks and Barbarians of the Northern Black Sea region. In the author's opinion the cause of this should be considered a fatal imperfectiveness of the initial theoretical principles.