Moshchiny culture

The Moshchiny culture (Russian: Мощинская культура) was an archaeological culture of the Iron Age from the 4th to the 7th century in present-day western Russia.

The settlement area was located in the forest areas at the upper Dnepr and the upper Oka in today's Russian Oblast Kaluga, Tula, Oryol and Smolensk.

It is named after a settlement near the village Moshchiny (Russian: Мощины) in the Mosalsky District in the Kaluga Oblast.

Bronze and iron processing were highly developed.

For the period from the 9th century, the possibly Baltic-Slavic origin of the Vyatichi is mentioned in the western part of the area.