Проаналізовано архівні й фондові матеріали з розкопок Вишгорода 1936 р., уточнено хронологію, місце
розташування житлових, господарських споруд і поховальних комплексів, а також датування речових
знахідок із культурно-хронологічних горизонтів давньоруського, золотоординського та нового часів.
The archives and archaeological materials from
excavations in Vyshgorod in 1936 are analysed in the
paper. This year the large-scale excavations were conducted on the territory of the old city: near the church
of st. Borys and Hlib, two sites in the northeast part of
the hillfort and few trenches in different parts of the
town.
The obtained results correlate with the reports of the
narrative sources and indicate the significant development of the city in the period from the 11th to the mid-13th century. The rapid development of the city occurs
at that time: the mausoleum of Sts. Borys and Hlib (explored in 1935—1936) becomes the main architectural
dominant of the city area. A city square with dwellings
and outbuildings were located around the church. The
analysis of the archival materials and artefacts from
the excavations in 1936 made it possible to clarify and
re-examine the allegations established in the works of
the mid-20th century.
The author proves that discovered objects have different chronology. For example, dwellings, outbuilding,
pits and sacral building of the 11th—13th centuries are
pit 1 (site 1), the foundations and remains of the walls
of the church of Sts. Borys and Hlib (site 1; site W) and
oven 1 (site 4). The ones dated by the middle of the
11th and the 12th centuries are building 1 (site 1) and
pit 1 (site 4). Structures of the 12th and 13th centuries
are pit 2 (site 1) and oven 1 (site 4); of the second half
of the 13th—14th centuries are building 1 (site "W"),
building 1, pit 2 (site 4). Finally, dated by the 17th—
19th centuries are building 2, burials 1, 2 (site 1) and
burials 1—19 (site 4). The cultural layers and objects
exclusively of Kyiv Rus time were found on the territory of suburbs (pottery furnaces 1 and 2 in a trench at
the south of the hillfort; burials 1—3 in trenches on the
territory of the Doroshenko estate).
In general, the obtained results confirm and at some
moments substantially detail our knowledge on the
historical development of the city during the Middle
Ages and Modern times.
