This article analyzes the reasons for the emergence and popularization of catacomb graves studied by the researcher in the ancient Ustrushona region. Issues such as the meeting of new types of graves together with the lahad, yorma and ora graves with a porch, the fact that they are related to the migration processes of antiquity and the early Middle Ages, as well as the fact that this process had a great impact on the spiritual, religious, social and political life of the ancient population revealed on the basis of comparative analysis of other monuments studied in the region.