The Penkovka culture is an archaeological culture dating from about the fifth to seventh/eights centuries CE, named after Penkovka , not far from Vinnytsia

Vinnytsia

Vinnytsia is a city located on the banks of the Southern Bug, in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast.-Names:...

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There were several archeological cultures typical for the Slavs, the equivalent of which is the Penkovka culture in the area of modern Ukraine, the Kolochin culture (modern Belarus), the Sukov culture (modern central and northern Poland), and the Prague culture (modern Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, and southern Poland) with its variant - the Korchak culture

Korchak culture

Korchak culture is an archaeological culture of the sixth and seventh century East Slavs who settled along the southern tributaries of the Pripyat River and from the Dnieper River to the Southern Bug and Dniester rivers, throughout modern day northwestern Ukraine and southern Belarus...

 on the lower Prut

Prut

The Prut is a long river in Eastern Europe. In part of its course it forms the border between Romania and Moldova.-Overview:...

, Dniester

Dniester

The Dniester is a river in Eastern Europe. It runs through Ukraine and Moldova and separates most of Moldova's territory from the breakaway de facto state of Transnistria.-Names:...

, and southern Boh. According to Kazimierz Godłowski, the origins of Slavs culture should be connected with the areas of the upper Dnieper basin (the Kiev culture

Kiev culture

The Kiev culture is an archaeological culture dating from about the 3rd to 5th centuries, named after Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The dwellings are overwhelmingly of the semi-subterranean type, common among earlier Germanic tribes like the Scirii and Bastarnae, and later in Slavic cultures...

) which offered the best conditions for the expansion of the Proto-Slavs to the south after the collapse of the federation of the Goths

Goths

The Goths were an East Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin whose two branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Medieval Europe....

 and the Chernyakhov culture

Chernyakhov culture

The Sântana de Mureș–Chernyakhiv culture is the name given to an archaeological culture which flourished between the 2nd and 5th centuries in a wide area of Eastern Europe, specifically in what today constitutes Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, and parts of Belarus...

. In the middle of the 5th century CE there developed two large groups of the Slavs: the Prague culture and the Penkovka culture, which are linked with Sclaveni and Antes

Antes (people)

The Antes or Antae were an ancient Slavic-Iranian tribal union in Eastern Europe who lived north of the lower Danube and the Black Sea in the 6th and 7th century AD and who are associated with the archaeological Penkovka culture.- Historiography :Procopius and Jordanes mention the Antes as one of...

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At the beginning of the 8th century, on the left bank of Dnieper, between the upper Oka

Oka

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 and Don

Don River (Russia)

The Don River is one of the major rivers of Russia. It rises in the town of Novomoskovsk 60 kilometres southeast from Tula, southeast of Moscow, and flows for a distance of about 1,950 kilometres to the Sea of Azov....

, is the contemporary Volyntsevo culture, which also retains many traits of the previous Penkovka culture. (Prague-Korchak, Penkovka, and Volyntsevo cultures)