HISTORY OF THE RESEARCH OF THE 3<sup>RD</sup>-7<sup>TH</sup>-CENTURY CERAMICS FROM THE UPPER DNIEPER REGION WITHIN THE 20<sup>TH</sup> AND THE BEGINNING OF THE 21<sup>ST</sup> CENTURIES
The article focuses on the historiographical aspect of the study of the 3rd-7th-century ceramic complexes from the Upper Dnieper region. The stages in the ceramic production study are pointed out, the main methods and research techniques for studying the ceramics of this chronological range are described. The main publications on the history of the research of the 3rd-7th-century ceramics from the Upper Dnieper region within the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries are analyzed. It is concluded that archaeologists in Belarus began to study the ceramics of the archaeological period under consideration back in the pre-war years. In the 1950s-1970s, ceramics were the object of study for L.D. Pobol, E.A. Simonovich, P.N. Tretyakov. Since the 1980s, ceramics were studied by A.M. Oblomsky and N.V. Lopatin. In the 1990s, R.V. Terpilovsky and N.S. Abashina, D.V. Sereda, I.V. Zinkovskaya worked out schemes for the classification of ceramics of Kyiv and Kaločyn cultures. In the 2000s, N.N. Dubitskaya devoted her research to the technological features of ceramic production.