During the expeditions led by Serhii Hamchenko there was explored a number of monuments of Trypillia culture in modern Vinnytsia, Odesa, Zhytomyr and Kirovohrad regions. The studied settlements belong to a wide chronological range – from the middle of the V to the end of the IV millennium BC.

The researcher’s greatest attention was focused on the monuments of Eastern Podillia. This was primarily due to the acquaintance with the family of local historians Zborovskyi, who conducted an amateur collection of artifacts of different eras in the microregion at the intersection of modern Vinnytsia, Odessa and Kirovohrad regions, starting from the last decade of the XX century. During 1909-1913, Serhii Hamchenko surveyed more than thirty settlements here and conducted excavations of several of them (Krynychky, Korytne, Danylova Balka). In addition, in 1909 the materials of the Trypillia culture were found by an archaeologist during excavations within the fortifications of the Nemyriv settlement of Scythian times.

The next stage of research of Trypillia in the Eastern Podillia falls on 1928 and 1929. Ipolyt Zborovskyi, already at that time the Director of the Tulchyn District Local History Museum, initiated the resumption of archaeological research. He conducted large-scale archaeological prospecting in the micro-region around Tulchyn city in Vinnytsia Region and organizes excavations of the Stina, Bilyi Kamin, and Pechera settlements. Serhii Hamchenko became the leader of the expeditions. Among the participants were Mykhailo Makarevych and Olena Lahodovska.

Studies of the monuments of the Trypillia culture in the South-Western Zhytomyr Region and the north of Kirovohrad Region are characterized by episodicity. These are the excavations of the Voitsekhivka in 1924 and Andriivka settlements in 1930.

Vitalii Rud