Krenke N.A.
Key words: Fatyanovo culture, culture of Sphere Amphorae, culture of Corded Ware, radiocarbon dating, spore-pollen analysis.

The article considers new materials received while studying the sites of the Fatyanovo culture of the Bronze epoch in the Moskva river basin (the settlements RANIS-floodplain, ZBS-4, ZBS-5, Tsaritsyn 1, the burial Lutsino-Gazovik). The group of the proto Fatyanovo antiques has been determined. The suggestion has been made that the population groups who bore the traditions of the culture of Sphere Amphorae, the culture of Baltics Corded Ware and the Epicorded Ware culture of the Western Ukraine and Poland were taking part in developing the Fatyanovo culture. The new chronological frames of the Fatyanovo culture, which stay within the interval of the second half of the 3rd millennium BC, were suggested. The steps in the developing of the shapes and ceramics ornaments were determined.