[2] The culture extended along the Volga from Ulyanovsk Oblast in the north through the Samara Bend towards Khvalynsk Hills and the Buzuluk District in the south.
They were made "of a clay-rich mud collected from the bottoms of stagnant ponds, formed by the coiling method and were baked in open fires at 450-600 degrees Celsius".
[2] A man buried at Lebyazhinka IV (a site usually assigned to the Elshanka culture) had the Haplogroup R1b.
[3] I. Vasiliev and A. Vybornov, citing the similarity of pottery, assert that Elshanka people were the descendants of the Zarzian culture who had been ousted from Central Asia by progressive desertification.
Linguist Asko Parpola (2022) associates the Elshanka culture with the Pre-Proto-Indo-European language, stating that Elshanka expanded northwards into the forest zone as the Kama culture, reflecting a migration of Pre-PIE speakers into the Pre-Proto-Uralic-speaking area and thus possibly explaining the Indo-Uralic linguistic parallels.