The manual is devoted to the characteristics of cultural formations of the final stage of the Middle Bronze Age in the steppe Urals. Issues of the history of the study, historiography of the main issues, cultural and chronological interpretation of monuments, the direction of cultural interactions and the historical destinies of the population are considered. The manual can be used when studying the disciplines “Archaeology”, “History of the Urals”, special courses on the Bronze Age of the Southern Urals and Northern Eurasia, for preparing abstracts, coursework, final qualifying papers, organizing independent and research work of students. The publication is prepared on the basis of the latest scientific data and does not duplicate existing textbooks and teaching aids.