The former ethnic Balticness of the Dnieper basin is evidenced by numerous archaeological finds, as well as hydronyms.[1] For example, the hydronyms Yauza, Khimka [ru] and Moskva, are of Baltic origin according to Toporov.[4] In the late Bronze Age, the Balts lived in territories from what is now the western border of Poland to the Ural Mountains.[5] However, some propose a smaller territory of Baltic inhabitation from the Vistula in the west to at least as far as Moscow in the east and as far south as Kyiv.[6]