ГОНЧАРНІ ГОРНИ ДАВНЬОРУСЬКОГО ВИШГОРОДА ТА ЇХ ЕВОЛЮЦІЯ

The article summarizes the archaeological research of the pottery kilns in ancient Vyshgorod. It was the biggest medieval pottery center in Eastern Europe in that time. More than twenty kilns were studied over the last 80 years. Around the same amount of kilns were discovered visually but never excavated from the ground. This significant amount of complexes belonged to different periods gave us the possibility to make certain generalizations about the pottery in Kyivan Rus’ and their evolution. Analyzing the ceramic materials from filling plants attentively, permitted to divide them into five consecutive chronological stages, to demonstrate their dimensions and design features changes. Keywords: Ancient Rus, Vyshgorod, pottery, kilns, ceramic material, evolution