Classify this Russian

[Pallantides]

Ripley used him as an example of a 'Great Russian' type
http://carnby.altervista.org/ripley/ripley%20-%200024.htm
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f161/11aaabbb11/zograf03.jpghttp://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f161/11aaabbb11/zograf04.jpg

Does he look a bit like me?

[Pallantides]

No opinions?

[Jarl]

Definitely it is a robust Slavic type, but he's too dark. Slavs are on average ash-brown, and he looks quite dark brown. Doesn't strike me as particularly Russian looking.

[spearofperun]

ruthenian CM

[Jarl]

Yeah. I'd also say he looks more like a Belarusian or a Ukrainian.

[esaima]

Yeah. I'd also say he looks more like a Belarusian or a Ukrainian.
Are Belarussians darker than Russians?

[Pallantides]

Yeah. I'd also say he looks more like a Belarusian or a Ukrainian.

Like Alexander Rybak?
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/28204331/Alexander+Rybak.jpg
:)


I thought he was just an exotic looking Norwegian before I learned that he was Belarusian. :p

[nisse]

He looks similar to a russian coworker of mine. It's not a terribly common look, but there are some people with high cheekbones like that and that eye shape among russians and ukrainians. Actually, I always associate that eye shape with slavic people, even though it's not terribly common, because I like it the best

[Jarl]

Are Belarussians darker than Russians?

No. On average not really. Perhaps darker than North Russians. But they are quite robust.

[nisse]

No. On average not really. Perhaps darker than North Russians. But they are quite robust.

...so what is russian, exactly? Doesn't seem right to be making such general statements about such a diverse (arguable one of the most diverse) group of people.

[Jarl]

...so what is russian, exactly? Doesn't seem right to be making such general statements about such a diverse (arguable one of the most diverse) group of people.

Racially the term has little sense as it encompasses a diverse spectrum. I guess the original Slavic type should be most prevalent in West Russia: from Pskov and Wielkie Łuki in the North, through Smolensk, Kaluga, Bryansk, Orel + the area around Moscow. In the North and along Volga as well as in steppes one should expect more outer influences.



And it is this Central type with longer heads and robust but more "chiseled" features. In the East and North East you get more roundish East Baltid features ;)

[RoadWarrior]

Some kind of Cromagnid

[sevruk]

East-СM. Definitely more robust than modern Russian

[Zmey Gorynych]

Ripley used him as an example of a 'Great Russian' type
http://carnby.altervista.org/ripley/ripley%20-%200024.htm
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f161/11aaabbb11/zograf03.jpghttp://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f161/11aaabbb11/zograf04.jpg

Cromagnid, might have an east-nordid/nordpontid influence but it's negligible. Badass and obviously ubermensch :)