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Abstract: The terrestrial deposit sequence of the Skala Podil''ska site in the Middle Dniester area provides high-resolution records of the older part of the Quaternary. The profile represents a unique environment of sedimentation on the undulated palaeosurface of the Podolian plateau, characterized by relatively weak intensity of loess accumulation processes, and relatively strong intensity of post-deposition processes (pedogenesis and erosion). The Skala Podil''ska succession contains fluvial, paludal–fluvial, and loess sediments, the latter with seven well-developed interglacial palaeosols which were studied in catenas. The palaeoenvironmental information is based on the results of multi-proxy studies. Based on palaeomagnetic (the MBB, the Blake event) and palaeobiologic evidence, a regional chronological scheme was made. The stratigraphic division of the Skala Podil''ska profile is tentatively correlated with the main stratigraphic units of the pre-Pleistocene and Pleistocene in Ukraine, Poland, and Western Europe. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]