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Semiyarka is a Late Bronze Age settlement in Abai Oblast in north-eastern Kazakhstan, which was occupied from around 1600 BCE.^[1] It is connected to the Cherkaskul culture (1600–1250 BCE) and Alekseevka-Sargary culture (1500–1100 BCE), a subdivision of the Andronovo culture. The site includes monumental architecture, and evidence of pottery as well as tin-bronze production.^[1][2] The copper and tin ores used for the production of the Semiyarka artifacts probably originated from the Altai Mountains in East Kazakhstan.^[3]

Semiyarka may have been a “Bronze Age metropolis”, and is one of the rare known sites of tin bronze production in the Eurasian steppe.^[2]

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  Semiyarka map of features identified through geophysical prospection
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  Semiyarka pottery sherds. Alekseevka-Sargary (upper four sherds) and Cherkaskul (lower four sherds) cultures

• Radivojević, Miljana; Lawrence, Dan; Merz, Victor K.; Merz, Ilya V.; Demidkova, Elena; Woolston-Houshold, Mark; Villis, Richie; Brown, Peter J. (18 November 2025). “A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka’s Bronze Age legacy”. Antiquity: 1–9. doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10244.
• Nicioli, Taylor (18 November 2025). “Archaeologists may have uncovered a Bronze Age metropolis in Kazakhstan’s steppe”. CNN.