У статті здійснено огляд робіт Пороської археологічної експедиції ІА НАН України. Проаналізовано результати польових досліджень через просторове розташування та якісний склад обстежених
експедицією пам'яток. Сформульовано основні принципи діяльності експедиції.
The Porossya archaeological expedition of the Institute of
Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (PorAE) is part of the research project about the Old Rus
Porossay. The project is realizing in the Department of Old Rus and Medieval Archeology of the IA NAS of Ukraine.
First Porossya archaeological expedition started on August 9, 1945. In 2011 it was renewed. Investigations are carried
out on the territory of the South of Medieval Kyiv Region. Special attention in research activity is focused on surveys
of archeological monuments and their documentation. The basis of the expedition is the annual work within the
framework of the research topic of the Department of Old Rus and Medieval Archeology of the IA NAS of Ukraine. The
head of the expedition is Artem Borysov, the junior research fellow of the department. The model for the expedition is the
organizational structure of multi-year survey expeditions, in particular, the Ovruch / East-Volyn archaeological expedition
of the IA NAS of Ukraine (leaded by A. Tomashevsky and S. Pavlenko) and Cherkassy Forest-steppe archaeological
expedition (leaded by M. Syvolap). Field route planning and tasks are related to the program for collecting and analyzing
the source base and for recording and mapping of the archaeological sites of Porossay.
By 2017, the expedition surveyed 160 archeological monuments of different chronological periodss. The work of
the expedition is aimed at a systematic, full-scale survey of Old Rus monuments in river Ros basin and adjacent territories.
An important direction of the expedition is the multy-season study of certain micro-regions (the Nehvoroshch
basin, the vicinity of chronicle Torchskye). Such areas are gradually approaching the level of continuous inspection of
the territory. In total, during the 10 seasons, participents of the Porossya archaeological expedition surveyed 267 archaeological
sites (including 22 settlements), 118 mounds in 20 burial groups and 9 separate burial mounds.
The tradition of archeological exploration in Porossya is related to the names of V. Dovzhenko, M. Kuchera,
L. Ivanchenko. The work of the expeditions on the study of the settlements of the Kyiv region and the Zmiyiv
shaft (leaded by M. Kuchera) and the detachments of the Dnieper Ancient Expedition (leaded by O. Mitsev,
L. Ivanchenko) allowed to create a basic map of monuments for this territory in the time of Old Rus.
