Results of the most recent archeological studies of the glassmaking workshop in Komariv in Northern Bukovina are considered. In particular the problem of its dating and probable production and functional aspects are examined. Based on the analysis of well-dated materials revised recently by Olga Rumyantseva (2017), the author offers to raise the upper chronological boundary of Komariv to the turn of the IV–V centuries with great probability – to the first decades of V century. And taken into account that the workshop in Komariv worked 6 –7, for a maximum of 10 years, the issue of the upper date is particularly important, since it may belong to a period when the classical Chernyakhiv complexes no longer existed. It has been suggested that the appearance of the Komariv phenomenon was greatly influenced by the activity of the incoming Huns or Huns-Alans elite from which administration of the regions was recruited. Assumption was made that, for it (Huns or Huns-Alans elite), craftsmen of Komariv glasswork complex, previously trained in the imperial centers, tried to recreate one of the most representative features of provincial-Roman life in these northern Bukovina lands – thin-walled glassy, particularly multicolored and often splendidly decorated vessels, shape of which witnessed about refined taste, high aesthetic preferences and financial capability of the owner.
Taking into account the movements of tribes in the mid – second half of 370-th, it was suggested that the elite, most effective in combat units of the Huns-Alans then passed from the Black Sea region along the Podillia and reached the Volhynian Upland, where in a small region – most of the hoards of the beginning of V century: Borochytskyi, Branivskyi, Kachynskyi and others are concentrated. And there, probably, their headquarter could be situated till the time of its transfer to Pannonia.
In the conclusions, special attention is paid to the fact that between the short-term functioning of the glass-making workshop in Komariv (according to the author: not earlier than the turn of IV–V – first decades of V century) and the appearance at the Volhynian Upland of Borochytskyi, Branivskyi, Kachynskyi and other hoards and finds of such type, there may be a cause-and-effect relations.
Key words: Komariv, glassmaking workshop, Huns, Huns-Alans, hoards of Volhynian Upland.