The Cherkaskul culture is an archaeological culture of the Bronze Age, which existed in the south of the Ural and Western Siberia. It is named after the village Cherkaskul in the Kaslinsky District of the Chelyabinsk Oblast. Opened K.V.Salnikov in 1964.Сальников К. В. Очерки древней истории Южного Урала. М., 1967
Origin The population of the Cherkaskul culture may be ancestral to the Ugrian peoples.
The ancestors of the Cherkaskul culture are associated with the population of the Ayat culture, which was located in the north of the modern Sverdlovsk Oblast. The Cherkaskul culture's population interacted with the tribes of the Andronovo culture.
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