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~the end of According to the Chronicle “Tale of Bygone
5th cent. Years”, prince Kyi, his brothers Schek and
Khory and his sister Lybid set up Kyiv that
with the lapse of time became an important
political and cultural centre of the Polans.
6th-7th cent. The appearance of confederacies of the
Slavs. It is a known fact from the chronicle
“Tale of Bygone Years” that on the eve of
Kyivan Rus foundation there existed 14 East
Slavic confederacies. Seven of them lived on
the territory of the contemporary Ukraine:
1) the Polans (the middle current of the
Dnieper);
2) the Severians (the left bank of the Dnieper,
the basin of the Desna, the Seim, the Sula
rivers);
3) the Drevlians (to the north-west from Kyiv,
the basin of the Prypiat and the Teteriv
rivers);
4) the Dulibs, the Volhynians, the Buzhans (in
the upper current of the Western Buh river);
5) the Ulichs (the Lower Dnieper and the
Lower Southern Buh);
6) the Tiverians (between the Dniester and the
Prut rivers);
7) the White Croats (the Precarpathian
region).
8th–the middle The consolidation of tribal confederacies into
of 9th cent. the tribal kingdoms. There are records about
the existence of three big political centres of
tribal kingdoms in Arabic sources: Kuyavia –
the state formation in the middle areas of the
Dnieper river with Kyiv as its centre; Slaviya-

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