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Here, the authors consider the existence and uniqueness of an \(\omega\)-periodic solution to the scalar functional-differential equation \[ u'(t)= f(u)(t),\tag{\(*\)} \] and to the equation \[ u'(t)= g(t,u(t), u(\mu_1(t)),\dots,u(\mu_n(t))),\tag{\(**\)} \] which is a special case of equation \((*)\), where \(f: C_\omega(\mathbb{R})\to L_\omega(\mathbb{R})\) is a continuous operator, and \(f\) is not Volterra; \(C_\omega(t)\) is the Banach space of continuous \(\omega\)-periodic functions \(u: \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}\) with the norm \(\|u_{C_\omega}\|= \max\{|u(t)|, 0\leq t\leq \omega\}\); \(L_\omega(\mathbb{R})\) is the Banach space of \(\omega\)-periodic Lebesgue integrable functions \(p:\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}\) with the norm \(\|p\|_{L_\omega}= \int^\omega_0|p(s)|ds\); the function \(g:\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^{n+1}\to \mathbb{R}\) is \(\omega\)-periodic with respect to the first variable and satisfies the Carathéodory conditions; \(\mu_k: \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}\), \(k= 1,2,\dots, n\), are measurable functions, and \(\mathbb{R}\) is the set of real numbers. It is well known that an absolutely continuous function \(u: \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}\) is said to be an \(\omega\)-periodic solution to equation \((*)\) (or \((**)\)), if it satisfies this equation almost everywhere in \(\mathbb{R}\) and \(u(t)= u(t+\omega)\) for \(t\in\mathbb{R}\). Here, non-proved effective sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of an \(\omega\)-periodic solution to equations \((*)\) and \((**)\) are established.