Despite a huge number of generalizing studies, among specialists there is no clear idea of the nomenclature status of the Yamnaya culture of the Carpathian-Dniester region, and, accordingly, understanding of their real place in the terminological structure. The analysis of a number of categories of inventory (e.g. vessels of the Budzhak type, spiral temporal rings, tubules etc.) revealed their relationship with funerary rite, as well as the specifics of distribution in the Carpathian-Dniester region. Since the groups of burials, identified on the basis of the funerary rite (having chronological significance), manifest themselves as relatively stable combinations of qualitative and quantitative indicators, they are a reflection of two main periods of the Yamnaya culture of the Carpathian-Dniester region. The burials of the Carpathian-Dniester region are an integral part of a complex cultural phenomenon like the Yamnaya (cultural and historical) community. Therefore, in terms of nomenclature, for the burials of the Carpathian-Dniester region, it would be more correct to formalize the status of a regional unit, with the term like Carpathian-Dniester regional variant of Yamnaya culture, by analogy with the Balkan, Tisza, Southern-Bug and others. Within the Carpathian-Dniester regional variant, two periods are clearly distinguished: early (Dniester) and the late one (Budzhak).