In 2005-09, three pottery kilns were unearthed at the Maeothian settlements of the first centuries AD in the Kuban River region. Together with 20 kilns excavated in the 1970s they formed a typologically compact group of pottery kilns in the region. All kilns are two-storey structures and differ only in size and design of the heating chambers. The diameters of kilns range from 0,9 to 2,6 m, with ca. 2,0 m on average. The roof of the heating chamber was supported by the partitions long-trapezoidal in shape. The openings for fire are mainly facing the east or northeast, for the western and southwest winds in summer did not cool the kilns. It allows us to suggest the seasonal use of these kilns, mainly for the summer.

The kilns dated to the 2nd-1st  centuries BC at the Elizavetinsky settlement located in the same region had served as prototypes for the kilns in study. The kilns of the similar design are known neither from the Greek or Roman pottery workshops, nor was it in use by the craftsmen of Central Asia. Some features makes parallel the Maeotian kilns of the Kuban region with kilns found in the Northwest Black Sea and Transcarpathian regions, the areas connected to the Celtic traditions. These traditions could be adopted by the Meothian craftsmen from the Celts lived in Asia Minor.

The potters of the Kuban region, re-settled by the nomads to the Lower Don area in the 1st  century AD had reproduced there their customary type of the pottery kilns. It explains the complete identity in the construction of kilns in both regions.

The medieval pottery kilns in the Northeast Caucasian region did not continue the tradition. These were more primitive in design and easier to make.

List of illustrations:
Fig. 1. The pottery kiln at the necropolis of the Sporny 1 settlement: plans and cross-sections of different levels.
Fig. 2. Pottery kilns of the Kazansky 1 settlement: 1 - the 2005 field season; 2 - the 2009 field season.
Fig. 3. Pottery kilns of the Starokorsunsky 2 settlement: 1 - kilns Nrs. 7-9, the plan and cross-section; 2 - kilns Nrs.
1-6, the plan and cross-section.
Fig. 4. Pottery kilns of the Starokorsunsky 2 settlement: 1 - the kiln nr. 10, the plan and cross-section; 2 - the kiln Nr. 11, the plan and cross-section; 3 - the kiln nr. 12, the plan and cross-section; 4 - the kiln nr. 14, the plan and cross-section.
Fig. 5. Pottery kilns of the Starokorsunsky 2 settlement: 1 - the kiln nr. 13, the plan and cross-section; 2 - the kiln nr. 15, the plan and cross-section; 3 - the kiln nr. 20, the plan and cross-section.
Fig. 6. Pottery kilns of the Starokorsunsky 2 settlement: 1 - the kiln nr. 18, the plan and cross-section; 2 - the kiln nr. 16, the plan and cross-section; 3 - the kiln nr. 19, the plan and cross-section; 4 - the kiln nr. 17, the plan and cross-section.
Fig. 7. Pottery kilns of the Maeotian settlements in the Lower Don region: 1 - the Kobyakovsky settlement, the kiln unearthed in 1961, the plan and cross-section; 2 - the Kobyakovsky settlement, the kiln unearthed in 1955; 3 - the Podazovsky settlement, the kiln unearthed in 1959.
Fig. 8. The kiln unearthed in 2009, pahsa slabs from the Kazansky 1 settlement. Plate 1. The main features of pottery kilns from the Kuban and the Lower Don regions, the first centuries AD.