У статті розглядаються різні версії історичної інтерпретації відомого давньоруського поселення Огрінь 8, яке
досліджувалося археологічною експедицією НаУКМА в
липні 2018р. ум . Дніпро.
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 XI-XIII centuries. National university “Kyiv-Mohyla academy" archaeological
expedition revealed large collection of materials of the XI-XIII 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 Ohrin 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 Ohrin peninsula direct forerunner
of modem Dnipro city megalopolis.
In opinion of the author a trade-handicraft settlement of the XI-XIII 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 XIII centuries.
