Steppe and the Volga-Kama Finns and Ugrians: issues of contacts in the second half of the I millennium AD in archaeological interpretation (using the example of belt sets) by Vladimir A. Ivanov

“…Among the Ugrians of the Southern Cis-Urals belts are not found at all, and among the nomadic Pechenegs – just a few. The less frequent distribution of these items among the Kama Finno-Permyaks – bearers of the Rodanovo culture – even if they had their own production, is probably explained by the influence of Islam, the center of which spread in the Kama region was the Bolgar outpost town of Afkula.…”
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"Russiana gloriatur ecclesia" and the issue of St. Bruno's of Querfurt missions by Marius Ščavinskas

“…., among "black Hungarians", Kiev Russia and Pechenegian, i.e., among Pechenegs. For the latter St. Bruno anointed the bishop and he also visited three Pechenegian lands. …”
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HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE STUDY OF STATE PRACTICES AND THE JUDICIARY OF SOUTHERN UKRAINIAN TERRITORIES: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS by Oleg Vuyiv, Maryna Bulkat

“…From the beginning of the annals, domestic authors adhered to pro-Ukrainian rhetoric in matters of the formation of the Kyiv state and its interaction with the Khazar Khaganate, which controlled the southern Ukrainian lands at that time, with the polities of the Pechenegs, Polovtsians, and other steppe peoples who lived there. …”
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