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The present study is focused on the development of geological setting under the erosional basis of the Early Holocene regression in the upper Northwestern Black Sea continental slope. The new obtained data for the core EUXRo01-1 were correlated with proxy-records from other sedimentary cores from the Northwestern and Western Black Sea upper continental slope and they correspond to the researches of other authors. The deposits in core EUXRo01-1 have recorded Late Pleistocene–Holocene geological setting changes. The new obtained data show that the deposits during the Early Holocene Black Sea regression and subsequent transgression were accumulated in rather variable lithodynamic conditions of the shelf, shelf edge and the continental slope. At some places of the continental slope, the processes of redeposition (e.g. gravity flows, turbiditic currents) were mainly controlled by water-level changes during the Early Holocene and they have played an important role in the forming of the sedimentary sequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]