The hypotheses of morphogenesis of the Male Polissia Basin, where the influence of the tectonic factor is considered, are analyzed in this article. The analysis was carried out on the basis of existing literary and cartographic sources related to geological and geomorphological studies of Male Polissia. Two groups of tectonic hypotheses of morphogenesis of Male Polissia are defined: denudation-tectonic and tectonic-denudation. Suppoters of the denudation-tectonic hypothesis claimed that the main factor in the morphogenesis of the Male Polissia was denudation, and tectonic processes only contributed to increasing its intensity. The representatives of this hypothesis were E. Titze, J. Novak, A. Zierhoffer and J. Czyżewski,H. Zilber, P. Tsis` and I. Chervanov. Most of them, believed that the reason for intense denudation were block tectonic elevations. Their views differed in main intensity and localization of elevations within the Male Polissya and adjacent territories of the Podolian and Volyn’ Uplands, and also Roztochia. Supporters of tectonic-denudation hypotheses considered tectonics as a decisive factor in the morphogenesis of the Male Polissia Basin. In their hypotheses, the main tectonic processes were linear tectonic elevations along the Podolian escarpment, or block tectonic subsidence of the Male Polissia Basin, which, mainly, formed the modern limits of it. Supporters of the tectonic-denudation hypothesis were W. Teisseyre, W. Lozinski, J. Siemiradzki, J. Smolenski, T. Wiśniowski, S. Rudnytskyi, H. Teisseyre, K. Gerenchuk, I. Hofshtein and Y. Swynko. The comparative table of the ideas of researchers regarding the localization and age of tectonic processes, that influenced the genesis of the Male Polissia Basin, is also presented in the work. The existing scientific data on the neotectonic movements of the research area is also analyzed. Data on the intensity, localization and direction of these movements are distinctive. Also, a historical analysis of ideas concerning the tectonic origin of the Hriadove Pobuzhia Upland and the research of stratigraphy of Cretaceous deposits along the border of Male Polissia and Podolian escarpment was carried out.