The paper deals with the problems of interaction of the population of the extreme northeast of Europe in I millenium AD. On the basis of archaeological sources an attempt is made to determine the essence and character of processes of interaction, their reasons and peculiarities at different stages and possible consequences for the population of the European northeast. It is established that migratory processes in I millennium A.D. resulted in radical changes in ethnocultural conditions in the northeast of Europe. One of the results of the deep changes that occurred in cultures of local population on the boundary of the Early Iron Age the Middle Ages, was the expressed originality of the Early Middle Ages ethnocultural formations which can be defined as syncretic, representing unity of non-uniform components. The available data shows that ethnocultural relations and contacts between the population of Vychegda and Pechora basins and the surrounding world (in relation to territory of the extreme northeast of Europe) in the Early Middle Ages had mainly unidirectional character, being carried out by unilateral cultural transmission. For local population they more had the character of borrowing and were manifested as distribution of objects of material culture from areas with producing economy (trade, exchange, etc.) or as cultural innovations in the field of economy, technologies etc., or development of new territories by the newly-come (related or unrelated) population and their mixture with local collectives. The conclusion is drawn that one of the factors that seriously influenced the peculiarities of formation and development of local cultures of the Early Middle Ages population in the basins of Vychegda and Pechora were interactions and relations of collectives proceeding as permanently occurring polytypic migrations. They can be considered as a constant not changing its importance in territorial frames of the European northeast since the Eneolithic to the Middle Ages and that can be referred to one of the key elements of life-support system of collectives in areas of northern, extreme-northern taiga and tundra zone.

Рассматриваются вопросы взаимодействия групп населения на северо-востоке Европы в I тыс. н. э. Сделан вывод, что в это время основной формой взаимодействия коллективов на европейском северо-востоке являлись разнотипные миграции. Между окружающим миром и населением Вычегодского и Печорского бассейна контакты осуществлялись преимущественно путем односторонней культурной трансмиссии из камского и нижнеобского культурных ареалов.