title: THE PROBLEM OF CONTACTS BETWEEN THE ANCIENT MORDVINIAN POPULATION OF THE MIDDLE TSNA REGION AND THE UPPER VORONEZH CULTURAL GROUP
abstract: The issue of contacts between the ancient Mordvins and the early Slavs has become relevant again after finding a group of early medieval sites in the upper reaches of the Voronezh River that are associated with the Dnieper cultural circle. The paper aims to prove contacts between the ancient Mordvins, who left burial sites with cremations in the middle Tsna region (mid-second half of the 7th century AD), and the population of the Upper Voronezh cultural group of the early Middle Ages. To meet th
journal: Rossiiskaia arkheologiia