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The article discussing data related to metalworking in the north-western Black Sea region between 3400–2000 BC, during the Early Bronze Age. This region is a geographical area located between the Danube, Prut and Southern Bug rivers, in the north-western part of the Black Sea steppe. It was a zone, which connected the western world of farmers (Balkan- Carpathian region) and pastoralists of the steppe. At this time, the population of the Usatovo, Yamnaya (Budzhak) and Catacomb cultures inhabited here, leaving mainly barrows – funerary places. Studying the metal artefacts of these cultures allows us to study the level of metalworking and the sources of metal in the region in the Early Bronze Age.