We prove criteria for continuous and homeomorphic extension to the boundary of mappings with finite distortion between domains on the Riemann surfaces by prime ends of Caratheodory.1. Introduction. The theory of the boundary behavior in the prime ends for the mappings with finite distortion has been developed in [11] for the plane domains and in [14] for the spatial domains. The pointwise boundary behavior of the mappings with finite distortion in regular domains on Riemann surfaces was recently studied by us in [26]. Moreover, the problem was investigated in regular domains on the Riemann manifolds for n ≥ 3 as well as in metric spaces, see e. ∈ (a, b). In what follows, |γ| denotes the locus of γ, i.e. the image γ ([a, b]).We act similarly to Caratheodory ([4]) under the definition of the prime ends of domains on a Riemann surface S, see Chapter 9 in [5]. First of all, recall that a continuous mapping σ : (ii) σ m splits D into 2 domains one of which contains σ m+1 and another one σ m−1 for every m > 1;2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 30C62.