“Rus City Named Peresechen” in Dnipro City and Archaeological Reality

Abstract

The multi-layered monument Ohrin 8 since it has been discovered in the 1930-ies had been repeatedly investigated by different archaeological expeditions. The unique dug-outs of Mesolithic time were investigated at Ohrin 8 site by the expedition headed by D.Telehin in 1970—80-ies. The Mesolithic dwellings of the settlement were overlayed by a thick layer with rich Kyiv-Rus materials of the ХІ—ХІІІ centuries. National university “Kyiv-Mohyla academy” archaeological expedition revealed large collection of materials of the ХІ—ХІІІ centuries during works at the settlement in 2018. Author of the article gives a short cultural and historical interpretation of medieval materials of the monument.
Part of researchers sees in Kyiv-Rus settlement on the Оhrin peninsula an archaeological accordance to the capital of Uliches tribe to the annalistic city Peresichen, mentioned in the Novhorod chronicle under 937—940. The article contains a critical analysis of this hypothesis, the supporters of which see in  Kyiv-Rus settlement on Оhrin peninsula direct forerunner of modern Dnipro city megalopolis.
In opinion of the author a trade-handicraft settlement of the ХІ—ХІІІ centuries at Ohrin bay ashore served the important knot of trade-routes on the Dnieper River highway immediately in front of overcoming by the ships of dangerous river thresholds. A settlement had been prospered under control by Kyiv principality of the Dnieper water-way and it was burned by Mongols in the first half of the ХІІІ centuries