Pages: 369-388

The work is dedicated to the criticism of the conception of L. I. Krušelnicka, who thinks that the culture of Saharna-Solonceni has appeared in the result of the expansion to the South-West of the bearers of the Chernolesskaya culture, group Neporotovo in particular. The author supports the idea of migration of the bearers of the culture of Saharna-Solonceni from the Low Danube regions in the second half – in the end of the X c. B. C. The work contains a quite full critical overview of the historiography on the problem up till now.