Russian anthropology and genetics

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I present to you all the anthropological tables and maps for the first time translated into English. Also here will be published rare materials.

Russian anthropologist V.V.Bunak:
Cephalic index. The maximum value of this attribute has the population of the Caucasus and Ukraine. Brachycephaly is also found in the basin of the upper Volga, in Povetluzhe and Vyatka, in Belarus - in the upper reaches of the Berezina. Average brachycephaly has the population of Baltic States, Oka and Volga basin.
Minimum value of cephalic index are in the basin of Tsna river. At the present time this river basin is the only more or less extensive area of relative dolichocephaly in Eastern Europe. The population of the north and northeast of the European part of the USSR has large swings in cephalic index from the minimum to the maximum value, with a predominance of middle brachycephaly.

Map of the distribution of values of cephalic index (Origin and ethnic history of the Russian people. Rep. Ed. VV Bunak. M., 1965):

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Norwegian anthropologist Halfdan Bryn. Comparison of some nordic populations of Europe:

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Like Coon said: The Russians from Saratov, Penza and Tambov gouvernates and the surrounding regions from Moscow to the Volga compose a Nordic people, metrically.

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Carleton S. Coon )

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Comparison of germans and some northern populations of Europe.

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Balanovsky, 2008."Two Sources of the Russian Patrilineal Heritage in Their Eurasian Context". Frequencies of the Y Chromosomal Haplogroups in Russian Populations:

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© 2008 Malyarchuk B.A., M.A.Perkova, M.V. Derenko. Frequencies of mtDNA Haplogroups (Slavic Peoples).

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Nope, the Russian from Saratov, Penza and Tambov are brunet Meds (Pontid). So what's the reason of dolichocephlay there.

Source: Coon C. S., The races of Europe, 1939
The Great Russians of a special area lying partly in the Tambov, Penza, and Saratov Governments, who form a mesocephalic nucleus in the country half way between Moscow and the mouth of the Volga, have been subjected to a detailed study,106 which shows them to be essentially Nordic. A mean stature of 169 cm., a cephalic index just under 79, and a head length of 192 mm., indicate an initial resemblance to Nordics or brunet Mediterraneans.
Half of these Great Russians have wavy hair, the other half straight; the head hair is dark brown (Fischer #4-5) in 30 per cent of the series studied, and almost never black; it is medium brown (Fischer #6-10) in about 50 per cent, and light brown in most of the rest. Rufosity is rare, but at the same time most of the blondism falls on the golden side. About 8 per cent have brown eyes, nearly 30 per cent light, and the rest mixed. Thus these tall, mesocephalic Great Russians are brown to dark brown-haired, and essentially mixed to light eyed. In this excerpt he cited Debetz [1933].
It means they are 62% mixed and 8% dark eyed and 80% dark to medium brown haired. This is not Nordic condition.

Bunak, Nesturh, Roginskij, Antropologija, 1941


Severnaya rasa - nordic race. You have Nordics in far north and nort-west not in center and south. This is map made by Jarcho.

Антропология. Учебное пособие. Я. Я. Рогинский, М.Г Левин. Издание 3-е.
М.: Высшая школа, 1978
Antropolija, Roginskij, Levin, 1978

white circle - central-european race (in Penza,Tambov)
black traingle - south-sibierian race (in Penza,Tambov)

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The second map also indicates that eastern variant of nordic race (4. White Sea-Atlantic Race) is in far north (mostly Komi I think

What Bunak said about dolichocephaly in Penza region? Give scan, I know Russian

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Bunak, Nesturh, Roginskij, Antropologija, 1941