The Khvalynsk culture is a Middle Copper Age Eneolithic culture of the middle Volga region. It takes its name from Khvalynsk in Saratov Oblast. It was preceded by the Early Eneolithic Samara culture.
A typical kurgan at the Samara Bend National Park
Steppe landscape in the Samara region
Landscape of the Khvalynsk Hills
The Samara culture is an Eneolithic culture dating to the turn of the 5th millennium BCE, at the Samara Bend of the Volga River. The Samara culture is regarded as related to contemporaneous or subsequ
Materials from the Sjezheye burial ground, Samara culture.
A typical hill at the Samara bend of the Volga
Steppe landscape in the Samara region