The Andronovo culture is a collection of similar local Bronze Age cultures that flourishes ca.

2300–1000 BC in western Siberia and the west Asiatic steppe.

It is probably better termed an archaeological complex or archaeological horizon.At least four periods, representing four subcultures, have since been distinguished, during which the culture expands towards the south and the east:• Sintashta-Petrovka-Arkaim (Southern Urals, northern Kazakhstan, 2200–1600 BC,- the Sintashta fortification of c. 1800 BC in Chelyabinsk Oblast;- the Petrovka settlement fortified settlement in Kazakhstan; - the nearby Arkaim settlement dated to the 17th century;• Alakul (2100–1400 BC) between Oxus and Jaxartes, Kyzylkum desert;• Alekseyevka (1300–1100 BC "final Bronze") in eastern Kazakhstan, contacts with Namazga VI in Turkmenia• Fedorovo (1500–1300 BC) in southern Siberia (earliest evidence of cremation and fire cult)• Beshkent-Vakhsh (1000–800 BC)