SEVERIANS' EASTERN-SLAVIC TRIBES ANCIENT SYMBOLICS GENESIS RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW
The author substantiates the assumption that the retrospective research of ancient Eastern-Slavic tribes' symbolics is an effective way to study their ethnogenesis features, conducts the retrospective comparison of Severians Eastern-Slavic tribe's symbolics with the range of synchronous and earlier peoples' and archaeological cultures, reveals the parallels between this tribe's symbolics and the symbolics of Pen'kovka, Kolochinsk and Przeworsk cultures, and suggests the hypothesis about the key contribution of these cultures population to Severians' ethnogenesis.